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The pygeohashing toolshed

How to set up aperfectbot:

1. Get a bot user.
   1. This makes it so the bot's edits don't flood recent changes on the wiki, and makes it apparent that these edits were done automatically.
2. Get pywikibot set up
   1. Download pywikibot module.
   2. Follow these instructions to set up the bot framework https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Use_on_third-party_wikis
      1. Generate the geohashing family based on those instruction.
      2. Use the login script to log into the bot, then it should save a cookie so that it can keep operating in the background forever.
3. Generate a full date list
   • This is for automatic updating of old date pages.
   • python datelist_gen.py > aperfectbot_updates.txt
4. Generate the graticules database
   • This took about 15 minutes last time I ran it
   • python pwb.py /path/to/pygeohashing/buildGraticuleDatabase.py
   • It will count up multiple times, one for each "All Graticules" page.
5. Manually run the bot once
   • Run it in the directory you intend to run it from normally, to ensure things are going well
   • Check the recent changes on the wiki to see if there are a bunch of destructive edits.
   • python pwb.py /path/to/pygeohashing/aperfectbot.py
6. Start up a cron job to run the bot automatically
   • Here's the one I used forever:

* * * * * cd /path/to/pywikibot; if [ ! -e aperfectbot.lock ]; then date > aperfectbot.lock; python pwb.py /path/to/pygeohashing/aperfectbot.py >output.txt 2>&1 ; rm aperfectbot.lock; fi

pygeohashing's Issues

recent expeditions not updating

It appears that the recent expeditions on the current events page has not been updating correctly.

Pull request #13 leads to Globalhashes being marked as unsuccessful

I like the idea behind pull request #13, Globalhashes should appear in their graticule's expedition list. Thank you for enhancing the bot, @piotrekoo!

However, the code seems to lead to Globalhashes being marked as unsuccessful (displaying the red Arrow4.png) in user lists. An example can be seen here: https://geohashing.site/?diff=890365

I've addressed this on the wiki, but so far haven't gotten a response.

Images in notification emails suffer from 0/-0 bug

Parsing problem on expedition page

Visible on this page:

http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/2009-06-18

Jim

Geohashing Bot seems to be napping on the job

Looks like the bot that auto-populates the Current events/Main page isn't functioning at the moment as the last day on the Current Events page is Dec 7th.

~ Pedalpusher

Images in notification e-mails.

Please include an image of the location within a graticule in notification e-mails.

GRATLNAME and GRATLADD tags don't work for user/grat expedition lists

Geohashing site moving

We're moving the wiki to https://geohashing.site/; the bot will presumably need re-pointing? If you're still happy to run it, please feel free to make the changes yourself - if you're no longer interested in running it, let me know and I'll try to have somebody adopt and adapt it.

Consolidate common code in notifications

Consolidate the common code related to sending e-mails and calculating the coordinates in the notifications bot.

E-mail all available coordinates every day.

Please e-mail all of a weekend's coordinates as soon as they become available on Friday.

Expedition not updated

Any idea why this one is not being updated?
http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/2013-06-10_42_-92