Dear list members,
yesterday I fiddled around with my MW-API (v1.27.2) and a registered
bot-user (Special:BotPassword) using the Httpful PHP client library [0].
My goal is to edit and create pages with my bot.
[0] <https://github.com/nategood/httpful/>
Making GET queries is working very well but I can’t login. − So I need
some advices from you, please.
Like I understood I have to make 4 requests:
1. = GET to "api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&type=login"
2. = POST to "api.php?action=login".
3. = POST to "api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&type=csrf"
4. = POST to "api.php?action=edit&[…]"
I made a small code sample that you can find here [1].
[1] <https://pastebin.com/AX9fuxRX>
With the 1st request I save the login-token and the cookie (from the
header). − This is working well.
Making the 2nd request I have to send "lgname", "lgpassword" and
"lgtoken" in the body and the cookie in the header. − But then I get the
API warning:
"Fetching a token via action=login is deprecated. Use
action=query&meta=tokens&type=login instead."
The response includes the result ("NeedToken") and "token",
"cookieprefix", "sessionid".
If I use the body-parameters as URL-parameters I get the API warning:
"The following parameters were found in the query string, but must be
in the POST body: lgpassword, lgtoken".
So I think I need to know:
Which steps/requests I have to do − with which: HTTP method, URL and
parameters, body data.
(Step 3 and 4 aren’t possible for me
Excuse me if that question(s) are more noobish …! − I read the
documentation and some mailinglist posts. But I couldn’t find any hint
of the ‚big picture‘ (of the process).
Thanks a lot (in advance for a solution) and best regards
Kai
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