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

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