2016-01-19 23:15 GMT+02:00 Strainu <[email protected]>: > 2016-01-19 9:14 GMT+02:00 Legoktm <[email protected]>: >> 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 _______________________________________________ pywikibot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot
