This is a page for requesting work to be done by a bot. This is an appropriate place to simply put ideas for bots. However be aware of various tools available to all users which can be used to accomplish the work without the need for a bot:
Gadget Cat-a-lot can be used for most category adding, removing and moving
VisualFileChange tool can be used for mass-changes of one author's uploaded files, or files in a category, creating a mass-deletion-request, let you insert tags to the file-description-pages (even copy from exif/meta-data). You can also perform find and replace operations with or without JavaScript regular expressions (regexp). A common use case is: "I've changed my username". It's a web-tool and can be launched directly.
AutoWikiBrowser can be used for large number of supervised and automatic edits
Arlo: I attempted to create Category:🏺 with my bot but am seeing TitleblacklistError: Page [[commons:Category:🏺]] is title-blacklisted.. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 14:11, 31 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
In that case, {{protectededit}} may be necessary. It seems to derive from the line
.*[^\0-\x{FFFF}\p{Han}].* <casesensitive|errmsg=titleblacklist-custom-hidden-char> # Very few characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane and CJK Unified Ideographs are useful in titles
{{protectededit}} only works for pages already created. In this case I'm unable to even create the page, and unsure how my bot would be able to get past the blacklist. Maybe another contributor can advise if my bot needs additional permissions? Cryptic-waveform (talk) 16:25, 31 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
After poking at this a little more, it looks like only admins are able to ignore the blacklist. So you may want to get in touch with them: COM:AN. If it turns out that there is a solution for my bot to create these pages, I'd be happy to do this for you. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 20:21, 31 January 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi, Could someone replace "author=https://www.bollywoodhungama.com" by "author={{Institution:Bollywood Hungama}}" on 14K files on Category:Files from Bollywood Hungama.
Please check all variations of "author/Author", and "https://www.bollywoodhungama.com/" with or without trailing /. Thanks, Yann (talk) 12:27, 20 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi Yann. I've started working on this. I'm only finding roughly ~400 files with the "Author https://www.bollywoodhungama.com" (trailing slash doesn't matter for search): search Are there cases that I'm missing? Cryptic-waveform (talk) 15:41, 20 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I've started work on this with BadzilBot (talk·contribs). I'll get as far as I can today and will be AFK until next week starting tomorrow. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 22:31, 20 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I did as many files as I could find. Let me know if there are patterns I missed. Cryptic-waveform (talk) 03:22, 21 February 2023 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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