With something like
generator = pywikibot.pagegenerators.SearchPageGenerator(i.name, step=50, total=50, site=pywikibot.Site("wikidata", "wikidata"), namespaces=[0])
WARNING: API error cirrussearch-too-busy-error: Search is currently too busy. Please try again later. API Error: query= u"{u'inprop': [u'protection'], 'gsrwhat': [u'text'], u'maxlag': ['5'], u'generator': [u'search'], u'format': [u'json'], u'gsrnamespace': [0], 'gsrsearch': [u'Arnaud Cl\\xe9ment'], u'prop': [u'info', u'imageinfo', u'categoryinfo'], u'continue': [True], u'meta': [u'userinfo'], u'indexpageids': [True], u'action': [u'query'], u'gsrlimit': [u'50'], u'iiprop': [u'timestamp', u'user', u'comment', u'url', u'size', u'sha1', u'metadata'], u'uiprop': [u'blockinfo', u'hasmsg']}" response= {u'servedby': u'mw1278', u'error': {u'info': u'Search is currently too busy. Please try again later.', u'code': u'cirrussearch-too-busy-error', u'help': u'See https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes.'}} Traceback (most recent call last): File "/shared/pywikipedia/core/pwb.py", line 262, in <module> if not main(): File "/shared/pywikipedia/core/pwb.py", line 255, in main run_python_file(filename, [filename] + args, argvu, file_package) File "/shared/pywikipedia/core/pwb.py", line 121, in run_python_file main_mod.__dict__) File "wd.py", line 34, in <module> for element in generator: File "/mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/pywikibot/public_html/core/pywikibot/pagegenerators.py", line 2398, in SearchPageGenerator for page in site.search(query, total=total, namespaces=namespaces): File "/mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/pywikibot/public_html/core/pywikibot/data/api.py", line 2768, in __iter__ self.data = self.request.submit() File "/mnt/nfs/labstore-secondary-tools-project/pywikibot/public_html/core/pywikibot/data/api.py", line 2204, in submit raise APIError(**result['error']) pywikibot.data.api.APIError: cirrussearch-too-busy-error: Search is currently too busy. Please try again later. [help:See https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes.] Dropped throttle(s). CRITICAL: Closing network session. Network session closed.
Note: I've the same error on the website with my browser. It's fine after a minute.