The purge user right was removed made implicit in MW 1.42-wmf1 (and backported to MW 1.41). T291316: 'purge' permission is not checked for action=purge
This means a UserRightsError is raised when APISite.purgepages is called.
2023-10-19 20:14:14 bot.py, 475 in writelogheader: VERBOSE
2023-10-19 20:14:14 bot.py, 476 in writelogheader: VERBOSE === Pywikibot framework v8.3.3 -- Logging header ===
2023-10-19 20:14:14 bot.py, 480 in writelogheader: VERBOSE COMMAND: ['/data/project/jjmc89-bot/repos/jjmc89-bot-scripts/multi/purge.py', '--forcelinkupdate', '-ns:0', '-cat:Pages with script errors']
2023-10-19 20:14:14 bot.py, 483 in writelogheader: VERBOSE DATE: 2023-10-19 20:14:14.257188 UTC
2023-10-19 20:14:14 bot.py, 487 in writelogheader: VERBOSE VERSION: pywikibot/__init__.py (, -1 (unknown), 2023/10/02, 23:59:43, n/a)
2023-10-19 20:14:14 bot.py, 494 in writelogheader: VERBOSE SYSTEM: posix.uname_result(sysname='Linux', nodename='purge-script-errors-ns0-28295764-dndfq', release='4.19.0-25-cloud-amd64', version='#1 SMP Debian 4.19.289-2 (2023-08-08)', machine='x86_64')
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2023-10-19 20:14:14 bot.py, 538 in writelogheader: VERBOSE =========================================================
2023-10-19 20:14:14 throttle.py, 181 in checkMultiplicity: VERBOSE Found 2 wikipedia:en processes running, including this one.
2023-10-19 20:14:15 bot.py, 1387 in current_page: STDOUT Working on 'Comparison of web browsers'
2023-10-19 20:14:15 __init__.py, 384 in _flush: VERBOSE Dropped throttle(s).
2023-10-19 20:14:15 bot.py, 1532 in exit: INFO
2023-10-19 20:14:15 bot.py, 1534 in exit: INFO 1 read operation
2023-10-19 20:14:15 bot.py, 1544 in exit: INFO Execution time: 0 seconds
2023-10-19 20:14:15 bot.py, 1548 in exit: INFO Read operation time: 0.0 seconds
2023-10-19 20:14:15 bot.py, 1559 in exit: INFO Script terminated
2023-10-19 20:14:15 bot.py, 1563 in exit: INFO by exception:
2023-10-19 20:14:15 logging.py, 335 in exception: ERROR User "JJMC89 bot" does not have required user right "purge" (UserRightsError)
2023-10-19 20:14:15 http.py, 119 in flush: VERBOSE Closing network session.
2023-10-19 20:14:15 http.py, 123 in flush: VERBOSE Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/data/project/jjmc89-bot/repos/jjmc89-bot-scripts/multi/purge.py", line 86, in <module>
raise SystemExit(main())
^^^^^^
File "/data/project/jjmc89-bot/repos/jjmc89-bot-scripts/multi/purge.py", line 81, in main
PurgeBot(generator=gen, **vars(parsed_args)).run()
File "/data/project/jjmc89-bot/repos/.venvs/jjmc89-bot-scripts/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pywikibot/bot.py", line 1671, in run
self.treat(page)
File "/data/project/jjmc89-bot/repos/.venvs/jjmc89-bot-scripts/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pywikibot/bot.py", line 1924, in treat
self.treat_page()
File "/data/project/jjmc89-bot/repos/jjmc89-bot-scripts/multi/purge.py", line 24, in treat_page
if self.current_page.purge(**self.opt):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/data/project/jjmc89-bot/repos/.venvs/jjmc89-bot-scripts/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pywikibot/page/_basepage.py", line 1403, in purge
return self.site.purgepages([self], **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/data/project/jjmc89-bot/repos/.venvs/jjmc89-bot-scripts/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pywikibot/site/_decorators.py", line 89, in callee
raise UserRightsError('User "{}" does not have required '
pywikibot.exceptions.UserRightsError: User "JJMC89 bot" does not have required user right "purge"
2023-10-19 20:14:15 http.py, 132 in flush: CRITICAL Exiting due to uncaught exception UserRightsError: User "JJMC89 bot" does not have required user right "purge"
2023-10-19 20:14:15 http.py, 137 in flush: VERBOSE Network session closed.