On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:09:52PM -0500, Jim Safley wrote:
>
> Using the API, what is the best way to determine whether the current
> user can edit a specified page? I could use:
>
> ?action=query&prop=info&intoken=edit&titles={title}
>
> to detect an "Action 'edit' is not allowed for the current user"
> warning, but this doesn't account for users with edit rights who
> attempt to edit a protected page.
I don't know if it's the best way, but you can retrieve the user's
access rights with:
?action=query&meta=userinfo&uiprop=rights
And you can query the protection of the page when retrieving the token:
?action=query&prop=info&intoken=edit&inprop=protection&titles={title}
Then it's a simple matter of comparing the protection against the
rights. This won't work against the title blacklist, but your bot
hitting *that* should be rare.
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