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Add block functionality in pywikibot (apispec.py)
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Version: core-(2.0)
Severity: normal

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:13 AM
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To add a little more, compat's apispec is a very large library around action=query, list=blocks , but it is *unused* in compat (according to $ git grep apispec)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=blocks

core has Site.blocks() which lists all blocks with parameters:

starttime=None
endtime=None
reverse=False
blockids=None
users=None
step=None
total=None

What functionality is needed?

jayvdb edited projects, added Pywikibot-compat-to-core; removed Pywikibot-General.
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What functionality is needed?

At least, unblock. For example, when having a list of lots of IP addresses that were infinite blocked that I want to unblock

Change 267435 had a related patch set uploaded (by Xqt):
Add some functionality from compat apispec to core

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/267435

Xqt triaged this task as Low priority.Mar 18 2016, 2:44 PM

Change 267435 merged by jenkins-bot:
[pywikibot/core@master] Some compat apispec functionality could be used in core

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/267435

I wish that in the future I can get a delete.py readable list of users and pass them into a block.py script which mass blocks them. Any progress towards any form of block/unblock script yet?

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