diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index ee13059..292a233 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -292,6 +292,14 @@ scripts = ["isbnlib", "unidecode", "mwparserfromhell (>=0.5.0)", "memento-client
 "weblinkchecker.py" = ["memento-client (==0.6.1)"]
 wikitextparser = ["wikitextparser (>=0.47.5)", "wikitextparser (>=0.47.0)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "regex"
+version = "2022.9.13"
+description = "Alternative regular expression module, to replace re."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "requests"
 version = "2.28.0"
@@ -388,6 +396,30 @@ brotli = ["brotlicffi (>=0.8.0)", "brotli (>=1.0.9)", "brotlipy (>=0.6.0)"]
 secure = ["pyOpenSSL (>=0.14)", "cryptography (>=1.3.4)", "idna (>=2.0.0)", "certifi", "ipaddress"]
 socks = ["PySocks (>=1.5.6,!=1.5.7,<2.0)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "wcwidth"
+version = "0.2.5"
+description = "Measures the displayed width of unicode strings in a terminal"
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "wikitextparser"
+version = "0.51.1"
+description = "A simple parsing tool for MediaWiki's wikitext markup."
+category = "main"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+
+[package.dependencies]
+regex = ">=2022.9.11"
+wcwidth = "*"
+
+[package.extras]
+dev = ["path.py", "coverage", "twine"]
+tests = ["pytest"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "yarl"
 version = "1.8.1"
@@ -403,7 +435,7 @@ multidict = ">=4.0"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "1.1"
 python-versions = "^3.9"
-content-hash = "a12006faa296b74e34d600ab7300f2926d58c153fa76c15a5b73f7c91077b6ab"
+content-hash = "061b7fa1deb95223cf42da4bf28189c4e64a837bc00ff1617c1e66569184ac01"
 
 [metadata.files]
 aiohttp = []
@@ -481,6 +513,7 @@ python-dateutil = [
     {file = "python_dateutil-2.8.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:961d03dc3453ebbc59dbdea9e4e11c5651520a876d0f4db161e8674aae935da9"},
 ]
 pywikibot = []
+regex = []
 requests = [
     {file = "requests-2.28.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:bc7861137fbce630f17b03d3ad02ad0bf978c844f3536d0edda6499dafce2b6f"},
     {file = "requests-2.28.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:d568723a7ebd25875d8d1eaf5dfa068cd2fc8194b2e483d7b1f7c81918dbec6b"},
@@ -509,4 +542,9 @@ urllib3 = [
     {file = "urllib3-1.26.9-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:44ece4d53fb1706f667c9bd1c648f5469a2ec925fcf3a776667042d645472c14"},
     {file = "urllib3-1.26.9.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:aabaf16477806a5e1dd19aa41f8c2b7950dd3c746362d7e3223dbe6de6ac448e"},
 ]
+wcwidth = [
+    {file = "wcwidth-0.2.5-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:beb4802a9cebb9144e99086eff703a642a13d6a0052920003a230f3294bbe784"},
+    {file = "wcwidth-0.2.5.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:c4d647b99872929fdb7bdcaa4fbe7f01413ed3d98077df798530e5b04f116c83"},
+]
+wikitextparser = []
 yarl = []
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c052856..3657eb9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ parse = "^1.19.0"
 pywikibot = "^7.7.0"
 pyparsing = "^3.0.9"
 "discord.py" = "^2.0.1"
+wikitextparser = "^0.51.1"
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]
 pytest = "^7.1.2"
diff --git a/wiki_postbot/clients/discord_client.py b/wiki_postbot/clients/discord_client.py
index 9530f16..a2bd000 100644
--- a/wiki_postbot/clients/discord_client.py
+++ b/wiki_postbot/clients/discord_client.py
@@ -5,75 +5,75 @@ from wiki_postbot.patterns.wikilink import Wikilink
 
 from discord.ext import commands
 from discord import Emoji
+#
+# intents = Intents.default()
+# intents.message_content = True
+#
+# bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='/', intents=intents)
+#
+# DEBUG = False
+#
+# @bot.event
+# async def on_message(message:discord.Message):
+#     print(message)
+#
+#     if message.content == 'ping':
+#         await message.channel.send('pong')
+#
+#     if 'good bot' in message.content:
+#         await message.add_reaction("❤️‍🔥")
+#
+#     wl = Wikilink.parse(message.content)
+#     if len(wl) > 0:
+#         if DEBUG:
+#             await message.channel.send(f"Wikilinks detected: \n" + '\n'.join([str(l) for l in wl]))
+#         else:
+#             await message.add_reaction("⏳")
+#
+#     await bot.process_commands(message)
+#
+# @bot.command()
 
-intents = Intents.default()
-intents.message_content = True
-
-bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='/', intents=intents)
-
-DEBUG = False
-
-@bot.event
-async def on_message(message:discord.Message):
-    print(message)
-
-    if message.content == 'ping':
-        await message.channel.send('pong')
-
-    if 'good bot' in message.content:
-        await message.add_reaction("❤️‍🔥")
-
-    wl = Wikilink.parse(message.content)
-    if len(wl) > 0:
-        if DEBUG:
-            await message.channel.send(f"Wikilinks detected: \n" + '\n'.join([str(l) for l in wl]))
-        else:
-            await message.add_reaction("⏳")
-
-    await bot.process_commands(message)
-
-@bot.command()
-async def debug(ctx:discord.ext.commands.Context, arg):
-    print('debug command')
-    global DEBUG
-    if arg == "on":
-        DEBUG = True
-        await ctx.message.add_reaction("🧪")
-    elif arg == "off":
-        DEBUG = False
-        await ctx.message.add_reaction("🤐")
-    else:
-        await ctx.message.reply("usage: /debug off or /debug on")
 # @bot.command
 
 
-#
-# class MyClient(Client):
-#
-#     def __init__(self, intents=None, **kwargs):
-#         if intents is None:
-#             intents = Intents.default()
-#             intents.message_content = True
-#
-#         super(MyClient, self).__init__(intents=intents, **kwargs)
-#
-#
-#     async def on_ready(self):
-#         print('Logged on as', self.user)
-#
-#     async def on_message(self, message):
-#         print(message)
-#         # don't respond to ourselves
-#         if message.author == self.user:
-#             return
-#
-#         if message.content == 'ping':
-#             await message.channel.send('pong')
-#
-#         wl = Wikilink.parse(message.content)
-#         if len(wl)>0:
-#             await message.channel.send(f"Wikilinks detected: \n" + '\n'.join([str(l) for l in wl]))
 
+class MyClient(Client):
+
+    def __init__(self, intents=None, debug:bool=False, **kwargs):
+        if intents is None:
+            intents = Intents.default()
+            intents.message_content = True
+
+        self.debug = debug
+
+        super(MyClient, self).__init__(intents=intents, **kwargs)
+
+
+    async def on_ready(self):
+        print('Logged on as', self.user)
+
+    async def on_message(self, message):
+        print(message)
+        # don't respond to ourselves
+        if message.author == self.user:
+            return
+
+        wl = Wikilink.parse(message.content)
+        if len(wl)>0:
+            await message.channel.send(f"Wikilinks detected: \n" + '\n'.join([str(l) for l in wl]))
+
+    async def debug(ctx: discord.ext.commands.Context, arg):
+        print('debug command')
+        global DEBUG
+        if arg == "on":
+            DEBUG = True
+            await ctx.message.add_reaction("🧪")
+        elif arg == "off":
+            DEBUG = False
+            await ctx.message.add_reaction("🤐")
+        else:
+            await ctx.message.reply("usage: /debug off or /debug on")
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/wiki_postbot/creds.py b/wiki_postbot/creds.py
index 2779792..c3dad62 100644
--- a/wiki_postbot/creds.py
+++ b/wiki_postbot/creds.py
@@ -41,3 +41,15 @@ class Discord_Creds:
         with open(path, 'r') as jfile:
             creds = json.load(jfile)
         return Discord_Creds(**creds)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Mediawiki_Creds:
+    user:str
+    password:str
+
+    @classmethod
+    def from_json(cls, path:Path) -> 'Mediawiki_Creds':
+        with open(path, 'r') as jfile:
+            creds = json.load(jfile)
+        return Mediawiki_Creds(**creds)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/wiki_postbot/interfaces/mediawiki.py b/wiki_postbot/interfaces/mediawiki.py
index 858d2e9..836a670 100644
--- a/wiki_postbot/interfaces/mediawiki.py
+++ b/wiki_postbot/interfaces/mediawiki.py
@@ -1,4 +1,90 @@
 """
 Class for interfacing with mediawiki
 """
+from typing import List
+from urllib.parse import urljoin
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from wiki_postbot.creds import Mediawiki_Creds
+import requests
 
+# creds = Mediawiki_Creds.from_json('mediawiki_creds.json')
+
+
+
+
+class Wiki:
+    def __init__(self, url:str, api_suffix:str="/api.php"):
+        self.url = url
+        self.api_url = urljoin(self.url, api_suffix)
+        self.sess = None
+
+
+    def login(self, creds:Mediawiki_Creds) -> requests.Session:
+        # get token to log in
+        sess = requests.Session()
+
+        login_token = sess.get(
+            self.api_url,
+            params={
+                "action":"query",
+                "meta":"tokens",
+                "type":"login",
+                "format":"json"
+            },
+            verify=False
+        ).json()['query']['tokens']['logintoken']
+
+
+        login_result = sess.post(
+            self.api_url,
+            data = {
+                "action":"login",
+                "lgname":creds.user,
+                "lgpassword":creds.password,
+                "lgtoken": login_token,
+                "format": "json"
+            },
+            verify=False
+        )
+        assert login_result.json()['login']['result'] == "Success"
+        self.sess = sess
+        return sess
+
+    def get_page_content(self, page:str) -> str:
+
+        content = self.sess.get(
+            self.api_url,
+            params={
+                'action':'parse',
+                'page': page,
+                'prop': 'wikitext',
+                'formatversion':'2',
+                'format':'json'
+            }
+        ).json()
+        return content['parse']['wikitext']
+
+    def insert_text(self, page, section, text):
+
+        token = self.sess.get(
+            self.api_url,
+            params={
+                "action": "query",
+                "meta": "tokens",
+                "format": "json"
+            },
+            verify=False
+        ).json()['query']['tokens']['csrftoken']
+
+        result = self.sess.post(
+            self.api_url,
+            data={
+                "action":"edit",
+                "title":page,
+                "section":"new",
+                "sectiontitle":section,
+                "appendtext":text,
+                "format":"json",
+                "token":token
+            }
+        )