Pywikibot is short for '''Python MediaWiki Robot Framework'''. Pywikibot is a collection of tools made to fit the maintenance need on Wikipedia, but it can also be used on other MediaWiki sites. The Pywikibot interfaces with the '[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page MediaWiki API]'. There are a number of [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Pywikibot_scripts scripts already written] that you can use or modify to suit your needs.
View the git repository to look at the code. [https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/pywikibot%2Fcore.git and as git repository] (core) to look at the code. (CF compat if needed). Here is an example, the
[https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/pywikibot%2Fcore.git/75397bd7ec25bc14d38b727e8c9e90477eda0f22/scripts%2Fbasic.py Basic.py]