Commons:Command-line upload

It is possible to upload to Wikimedia Commons using command-line tools.

Python Wikipedia Bot

The python framework includes various file upload tools. These tools require installing python and the pywikibot framework. If each upload is checked prior to upload (see verifyDescription option below), it isn't considered a bot.

For detailed information on its usage:

• MW:Manual:Pywikibot/Basic use

To login with this tool, your configuration file needs the following settings.

family = 'commons'
mylang = 'commons'
usernames['commons']['commons'] = 'nick'

Usage:

• Upload.py - to upload files to Commons.
• Imagecopy.py - Image transfer in local wiki to Commons.
• Nowcommons.py - Image delete in local wiki already in Commons.

Sample using pywikibot's UploadRobot in your own script

# -*- coding: utf-8  -*-

import sys

import pywikibot
from pywikibot.specialbots import UploadRobot

def complete_desc_and_upload(filename, pagetitle, desc, date, categories):
    #complete this once if applies to all files

    description = u"""{{Information
|Description    = {{en|1=""" + desc + """}}
|Source         = <!-- if applicable: {{own}} --->
|Author         = <!-- your name:  --->
|Date           = """ + date + """
|Permission     = 
|other_versions = 
}}
=={{int:license-header}}==
<!-- your license --->

""" + categories + """
[[Category:Taken with camera 123]]
"""
    url = [ filename ]
    keepFilename = False        #set to True to skip double-checking/editing destination filename
    verifyDescription = True    #set to False to skip double-checking/editing description => change to bot-mode
    targetSite = pywikibot.getSite('commons', 'commons')
    
    bot = UploadRobot(url, description=description, useFilename=pagetitle, keepFilename=keepFilename, verifyDescription=verifyDescription, targetSite=targetSite)
    bot.run()

def main(args):
    #list each file here
    
    filename    = """testimage-1.jpg"""
    pagetitle   = """testimage-1-from asdfasdfa.jpg"""
    desc        = """Mount St Helens viewed from ... in the rain"""
    date        = "2010-04-07"
    categories  = """[[Category:Locality]]
[[Category:Theme]]
[[Category:View type]]
[[Category:Feature1]]
[[Category:Feature2]]"""
    complete_desc_and_upload(filename, pagetitle, desc, date, categories)


    #sample with:  - local file name identical to file name at Commons
    #              - date as previous file
    #              - less quotes (no CR or " in fields)
    filename   = "testimage-2.jpg"
    pagetitle  = filename
    desc       = "Mount St Helens as seen from ... at sunset"
    categories = "[[Category:Locality]] [[Category:Theme]] [[Category:View type]] [[Category:Feature1]] [[Category:Feature2]]"
    complete_desc_and_upload(filename, pagetitle, desc, date, categories)
   

if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        main(sys.argv[1:])
    finally:
        pywikibot.stopme()

For other tools based on pywikipediabot, see multichill/bot and erfgoedbot.

Flickrripper

Flickrripper is a free Python program for easy upload of large numbers of images from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons. The program is documented in mw:Manual:Pywikibot/flickrripper.py.

Nichalp's upload script

A Perl script that creates a CSV file with the list of photographs in a folder. Enter all information, such as description, licence, category, latitude, longitude and so on. Also embeds certain Exif data to the photograph such as GPS data, name, licence etc. In addition, you can also rotate and rename it on-the-fly.

• Manual and link‎

Wmigda's upload script

A Python version of Nichalp's upload script but that is dependent on the upload.csv-file that one of Nichalp's two Perl script generates.

Requirement: At least Perl and Python and one of Nichalp's two scripts, see documentation for further details

• Link

BotClasses.php

Some bots, like User:BrooklynMuseumBot, were written in PHP based on BotClasses.php