User:Ritchie333/dyks.py

1. A pywikibot script to dump out all DYK nominations in a list

import re

import pywikibot

from pywikibot import pagegenerators

import sys

username = sys.argv[ 1 ]

reDYK = re.compile( '^Giving DYK credit for \[\[([^\]]+)\]\]' )

site = pywikibot.Site()

tp = pywikibot.Page( site, 'User talk:' + username )

for rev in tp.revisions(reverse=True):

if rev.user == 'DYKUpdateBot':

match = reDYK.match( rev.comment )

if match is not None:

page = match.group( 1 )

print( '# ' + rev.timestamp.strftime( '%d %B %Y' ) + ' ' + page + '' )