Oh, of course, POST, thanks. Now it works, after also removing the “r” (raw string) from the token since it already has an escaped backslash, and removing urllib.parse.urlencode from the parameters. Here’s the working version in case anyone would like to see it:

#!/bin/env python

import requests

baseUrl = 'http://chlamyannotations-test2.princeton.edu/api.php'

params = {'action': 'query', 'meta': 'tokens'}

responseFilename = '/molbio2/mcahn/temp/createPagesResponse.html'

r = requests.get(baseUrl, params=params)

print(r) print(r.text)

params = {'action': 'edit', 'title': 'TestPage3', 'summary': 'Test summary', 'text': 'article content', 'token': '+\'}

f = open(responseFilename, 'w')

r = requests.post(baseUrl, data=params)

print(r) f.write(r.text) f.close()

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