# I hereby place this script into the Public Domain!
import os, sys
import time

import mwclient

import mercurial.ui
from mercurial import localrepo
from mercurial import commands

article = 'Love'
#start_time = None
start_time = '2011-01-01T00:00:00Z'

# set up mercurial repo
ui = mercurial.ui.ui()
repo_dir = article
repo = localrepo.localrepository(ui, path=repo_dir, create = not os.path.isdir(repo_dir))
#if not os.path.isdir(article):
#	os.mkdir(article)
#os.chdir(article)
print "rep in", repo.root
content_path = os.path.join(repo.root, article + '.wiki')

site = mwclient.Site('en.wikipedia.org')
page = site.Pages[article]

for rev in page.revisions(start=start_time, limit=50,dir='newer', prop='ids|timestamp|flags|comment|user|content'):
	content = rev['*']
	timestamp = time.asctime(rev['timestamp'])
	comment = rev['comment'].encode('utf8')
	if len(comment) == 0: comment = "blank"
	print "writing revision from", timestamp
	
	f = open(content_path, 'wb')
	f.write(content.encode('utf8'))
	f.close()

	commands.addremove(ui, repo)
	commands.commit(ui, repo, message=comment, user=rev['user'].encode('utf8'), date=timestamp)