Wikipedia Bots – URL to Get the List of Wikipedia Bots

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Is there an URL to retrieve the list of Wikipedia bots?
Those are users with the bot flag.
It could be HTML/XML or anything, but not the whole Wikipedia dump.

No such method in the API.

Note: not all bots contain "bot" in their name, see for instance CommonsDelinker.

Best Answer

There is such method in the API, it's allusers, which has a parameter augroup that you can use to get a list of all users in a specific group.

For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xml&action=query&list=allusers&augroup=bot&aulimit=max

This will give you the first 500 bots. If you want to get all of them, you have to use query-continue.

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