All of the documentation that you link to looks right to me, *except* for
the auto-generated example at
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=loginogin. As you say,
that example seems to imply that you'd call 'action=login' with a GET
request and put everything in the URI; but in fact, that is not allowed.
Also API:Main page - MediaWiki
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page> says that ”*tokens
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=tokens>** is *
*Deprecated.* Get tokens for data-modifying actions”.
That statement is in the list of values of the 'action' parameter; so what
it's saying is that 'action=tokens' is deprecated. It's *not* saying that
'action=query&meta=tokens' is deprecated; in fact, as explained at
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=tokenskens,
'action=tokens' is deprecated *in favor of*
'action=query&meta=tokens'.
I've never used Ansible, but your request seems to be a mixture of what
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Creating_a_bot#Logging_in calls "Request
1" and what it calls "Request 2". As explained at that page, you need to
make two separate requests: "Request 1" is where you get a login token from
'action=query&meta=tokens', and "Request 2" is where you use that
login
token, plus the username and password, to actually log in.
-Ran
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 12:04 AM Henrik Rasmussen <her(a)adm.ku.dk> wrote:
My current version of mediawiki installation is
1.32.0. I am trying to use
Ansible to interface update Mediawiki.
There seems to be some contradictions in the API documentation.
· The Help:Creating a bot - Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Creating_a_bot#Logging_in> says that
lgname, lgpassword and lgtoken should be used in a POST,
· while the MediaWiki API help
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=login> says that
user id and password should be a part of the URI:
*api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpassword=password
<https://t-dokuwiki.it.ku.dk/dokuwiki/api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpassword=password>*
.
· Also API:Main page - MediaWiki
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page> says that ”*tokens
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=tokens>** is *
*Deprecated.* Get tokens for data-modifying actions”.
From the ansible.builtin.uri – Interacts with webservices — Ansible
Documentation
<https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/uri_module.html#examples>,
the way to POST, is to insert
body_format*:* form-urlencoded
body*:*
name*:* your_username
password*:* your_password
enter*:* Sign in
which I think must be
- name: Logging in to wiki.server
uri:
url:
https://wiki.server/wiki/api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&type=logi…
method: POST
force_basic_auth: yes
body_format*:* form-urlencoded
body*:*
lgname*:* your_username
lgpassword*:* your_password
lgtoken*:* Sign in
but this gives me
"warnings": {
"main": {
"*": "Unrecognized parameters: lgname, lgtoken,
lgpassword."
}
What is the correct documentation?
Your sincerily
*Henrik Rasmussen*
System administrator
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