you can still login via the API,without having to use either oauth or
botpassword
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Bináris <wikipo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found bot passwords, but they offer very limited user rights.
> So the best thing is to try without API?
>
> 2016-09-06 0:24 GMT+02:00 Gergo Tisza <gti...@wikimedia.org>:
>
> > On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Bináris <wikipo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > {u'login': {u'*': u'Fetching a token via action=login is deprecated.
> Use
> > > action=query&meta=tokens&type=login instead.'}}
> > > Then I went to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Login.
> > > Here is stated something completely else:
> > > action=clientlogin
> > >
> >
> > The intro section of that page explains which action to use.
> > I don't think the compat branch of Pywikibot supports OAuth; it
> definitely
> > does not support action=clientlogin (which is not meant for bots). It
> will
> > work with action=login and bot passwords [1] after [2] is merged.
> >
> > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Bot_passwords
> > [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/306133/
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