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billinghurst

19 Jan 2016 19 Jan '16

12:49 a.m.

I have read the WM messaging about the changes that are taking place in WM 1.27.0/11 with regards to authentication, though not understanding what that will mean for Pywikibot. Would SKS please cover that information gap. Thx. -- billinghurst

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Legoktm

19 Jan 19 Jan

9:14 a.m.

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Hi, On 01/18/2016 02:49 PM, billinghurst wrote:

I have read the WM messaging about the changes that are taking place in WM 1.27.0/11 with regards to authentication, though not understanding what that will mean for Pywikibot. Would SKS please cover that information gap. Thx.

Pywikibot supports using OAuth to authenticate. For Wikimedia sites, it's recommended that you switch to that, and there's documentation[1] on how to do so. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth -- Legoktm

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Strainu

11:15 p.m.

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2016-01-19 9:14 GMT+02:00 Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>om>:

Hi, On 01/18/2016 02:49 PM, billinghurst wrote:

I have read the WM messaging about the changes that are taking place in WM 1.27.0/11 with regards to authentication, though not understanding what that will mean for Pywikibot. Would SKS please cover that information gap. Thx.

Pywikibot supports using OAuth to authenticate. For Wikimedia sites, it's recommended that you switch to that, and there's documentation[1] on how to do so. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth

Hi, I followed the instructions there, but when trying to edit I get "API error badtoken: invalid token". I double checked the tokens and secrets, but they seem OK. How can I debug further? Thanks, Strainu

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Strainu

11:43 p.m.

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2016-01-19 23:15 GMT+02:00 Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com>om>:

2016-01-19 9:14 GMT+02:00 Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>om>:

Hi, On 01/18/2016 02:49 PM, billinghurst wrote:

I have read the WM messaging about the changes that are taking place in WM 1.27.0/11 with regards to authentication, though not understanding what that will mean for Pywikibot. Would SKS please cover that information gap. Thx.

Pywikibot supports using OAuth to authenticate. For Wikimedia sites, it's recommended that you switch to that, and there's documentation[1] on how to do so. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth

Hi, I followed the instructions there, but when trying to edit I get "API error badtoken: invalid token". I double checked the tokens and secrets, but they seem OK. How can I debug further?

It took about an hour of debugging, but eventually I figured it out: you need to logout before activating OAuth. This is non-intuitive and I've added it to the manual page. Strainu

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John Mark Vandenberg

20 Jan 20 Jan

3:42 a.m.

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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, On 01/18/2016 02:49 PM, billinghurst wrote:

I have read the WM messaging about the changes that are taking place in WM 1.27.0/11 with regards to authentication, though not understanding what that will mean for Pywikibot. Would SKS please cover that information gap. Thx.

Pywikibot supports using OAuth to authenticate. For Wikimedia sites, it's recommended that you switch to that, and there's documentation[1] on how to do so. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth

This will mean Pywikibot 2.0 (which uses httplib2) will be undesirable for Wikimedia use soon. We will need to finalise the 2.0 release, and then start work on the 3.0 release which uses requests and supports OAuth. -- John Vandenberg

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