[00:29:59] [telegram] words can neither qualify how helpful your guidance and advice has been.. I am forever grateful🙌 for your support.. Thank you Mr LARRY JAY I have received my profit of 0.9btc in my wallet as you've promised thank you very much [00:30:00] [telegram] https://t.me/+I2108pmTL802MTM8 [05:53:59] "but to my knowledge it is the only library that can download a page and output the templates as a dictionary." just use mwparserfromhell [05:54:24] [telegram] I have made some pull requests before, last time the day before yesterday. Unfortunately pywikibots code is an overengineered mess in general if you ask me. I generally prefer libraries that keep it simple (KISS-principle). [05:54:24] [telegram] Pywikibot has it's own logging module, it's own terminal user interface, etc. It seems like a group of entangled libraries and tries to do everything related to bots and the result is not to my liking. [05:54:26] [telegram] I would prefer if it was split into several libraries that stand for themselves. There are already good terminal ui python libraries. No need at all to reinvent that wheel to take one example. (re @Jan_ainali: Have you ever considered making a pull request to a project that is not yours?) [05:54:36] or wikitextparser iirc [05:56:57] [telegram] Thanks for the tip :) I already do of course and I like it a lot. Is there a simple library to download a page based on the title? [05:59:21] [telegram] found this in the readme and it suits my need! : https://tools-static.wmflabs.org/bridgebot/79aba5ed/file_16347.jpg [06:04:12] [telegram] Were those libraries also there 10 years ago? Perhaps they were, I am not a Python person, but well, pywikibot is old af. (re @DennisPriskorn: I have made some pull requests before, last time the day before yesterday. Unfortunately pywikibots code is an overengineered me...) [06:04:35] [telegram] Constantly maintained and stuff, but old. [06:16:22] [telegram] Oh, ok, I don't know the history. That explains a lot actually. [07:19:09] [telegram] how old is pywikibot actually? I got as far as https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/commit/d2135c88eff36253d099fa5ce9ddfc72918b9a51 from 2007 and that says "starting the rewrite branch" [07:25:37] https://static-codereview.wikimedia.org/pywikipedia/2.html says 2003 [08:24:19] [telegram] I solved my user facing issue by copypasting one function from pywikibot into my code and use the MediaWiki REST V1 API to fetch all I need in one request. 😃 [19:35:14] [telegram] 👋 [19:35:18] [telegram] Hi hi [19:35:33] [telegram] Thought I had better lurk!