I think there is a lot to develop here both in software and documentation. As I am not the fortunate one, who just follows simple instrauctions and suceeds, I try tomake use of my experience. Currently getting to the first real step with a bot does not seem to simple for a newcomer and may make people to give it up early.

2017-05-16 17:54 GMT+02:00 Morten Wang <nettrom@gmail.com>:

I don't remember exactly why they implemented this, but based on the manual[1] I get the impression that they moved to using bot passwords and OAuth to have better control over what bots can and cannot do. With the old username/password setup, that combination gives access to everything, whereas the other approaches allow you to only provide the bot with specific permissions.

So yes, login might break at some point.

References:

1: https://www.mediawiki.org/w iki/Manual:Bot_passwords

Cheers,

Morten

On 16 May 2017 at 06:04, Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com> wrote:

This is a nice conservation. :-)

I tried to log in with one of my bots interactively via web browser, and after login I got a screen stating my password was invalid because it was shorter than 8 characters, and I was obliged to change it. Afterwords I could log in. This is a case that is not handled by login.py at all. I don't dare to change the password of my main bot account because it is fortunately still logged in to compat, and I don't want to risk it.

Furthermore, after login I got these warnings from API:
WARNING: API warning (main): Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/m ailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api- announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes. Use [[Special:ApiFeatureUsage]] to see usage of deprecated features by your application.
WARNING: API warning (login): Main-account login via "action=login" is deprecated and may stop working without warning. To continue login with "action=login", see [[Special:BotPasswords]]. To safely continue using main-account login, see "action=clientlogin".
Logged in on wikipedia:hu as BinBott.

Is login.py really subject to break again at any time?

2017-05-16 11:13 GMT+02:00 Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com>:

2017-05-16 0:31 GMT+02:00 Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com>:

2017-05-15 23:53 GMT+02:00 Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com>:

Hi,

I downloaded core and try to use it.

What is difference between "ERROR: Login failed (Aborted)." and "ERROR: Login failed (Failed)."?

None of them is what I want.

I think the first message is shown when I enter the correct password. Tested with two bot accounts. No further explanation. 

Now, Tgr showed me this page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki /API:Login#The_login_action

 Aborted (since 1.27) if the login using the main account password (rather than a bot password) cannot proceed because user interaction is required. The clientlogin action should be used instead.

That's nice. How to tell login.py to handle this case and use clientlogin?

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