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"temporary server problem" is strange indeed, but i bet it is "you're sending a POST request when the server expect a GET request". [[User:Divinity76|Divinity76]] ([[User talk:Divinity76|talk]]) 12:43, 12 March 2013 (UTC) |
"temporary server problem" is strange indeed, but i bet it is "you're sending a POST request when the server expect a GET request". [[User:Divinity76|Divinity76]] ([[User talk:Divinity76|talk]]) 12:43, 12 March 2013 (UTC) |
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I'm working on an irc bot. I want to make it have a command !wikipedia <something>. The command will print the first 300 or so letters of the wikipedia article on <something>. As it will just read data from pages, do I need a bot user agent? |
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[[Special:Contributions/76.246.45.128|76.246.45.128]] 02:36, 28 March 2013 (UTC) |
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I'm trying to run a script to collect some data from Wikipedia for the first time and I've run into this measure. Is there any way I could see the format of the user_agent string that Wikimedia expects so as to properly format my settings? I tried a vernacular description, but still ended up with the "give a descriptive user agent" response. Elijahmeeks 02:05, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Never mind, I didn't realize I had to set it in curl instead of as the usual initialization.Elijahmeeks 02:26, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
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Strangely enough, I get the message about a temporary server problem unless I take out this line:
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,TRUE);
Not sure why that might be. Leucosticte (talk) 09:26, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
"temporary server problem" is strange indeed, but i bet it is "you're sending a POST request when the server expect a GET request". Divinity76 (talk) 12:43, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Does my bot need a bot user agent?
I'm working on an irc bot. I want to make it have a command !wikipedia <something>. The command will print the first 300 or so letters of the wikipedia article on <something>. As it will just read data from pages, do I need a bot user agent? Thanks. 76.246.45.128 02:36, 28 March 2013 (UTC)