MediaWiki API help

This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.

Documentation and examples: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page

(main | login)

This module requires write rights.
This module only accepts POST requests.
Source: MediaWiki
License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Log in and get authentication cookies.

This action should only be used in combination with Special:BotPasswords; use for main-account login is deprecated and may fail without warning. To safely log in to the main account, use action=clientlogin.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Login

Specific parameters:

Other general parameters are available.

lgname: Username.
lgpassword: Password.
lgdomain: Domain (optional).
lgtoken: A "login" token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens

Example:

Log in.: api.php?action=login&lgname=user&lgpassword=password&lgtoken=123ABC [open in sandbox]

MediaWiki API help

action=login (lg)