On 30 August 2016 at 22:46, Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I also tried your method and indeed, it sees me as
anonymous.
...
Perhaps pywikibot only sends the cookies when saving a
page?
No, it should always send the cookies, but possibly the cookies are not
saved or read correctly -- that would be a bug.
In any case, you can force the bot to log in by calling site.login(); that
should give you the same behavior as edit-then-query.
Merlijn