• Source: MediaWiki
• License: GPL-2.0-or-later

• https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Tokens

type

Types of token to request.

Values (separate with or alternative): createaccount, csrf, deleteglobalaccount, login, patrol, rollback, setglobalaccountstatus, userrights, watch

To specify all values, use .

Default: csrf

Retrieve a csrf token (the default).

api.php?action=query&meta=tokens [open in sandbox]

Retrieve a watch token and a patrol token.

api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&type=watch|patrol [open in sandbox]

Python

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
 tokens.py
 MediaWiki API Demos
 Demo of `Token` module: Fetch token of type `login`
 MIT License
"""

importrequests

S = requests.Session()

URL = "https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php"

PARAMS = {
 "action": "query",
 "meta": "tokens",
 "type": "login",
 "format": "json"
}

R = S.get(url=URL, params=PARAMS)
DATA = R.json()

LOGIN_TOKEN = DATA['query']['tokens']['logintoken']

print(LOGIN_TOKEN)

PHP

<?php

/*
 tokens.php

 MediaWiki API Demos
 Demo of `Token` module: Fetch token of type `login`

 MIT License
*/

$endPoint = "https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php";
$params = [
 "action" => "query",
 "meta" => "tokens",
 "type" => "login",
 "format" => "json"
];

$url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params );

$ch = curl_init( $url );
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
// Wikis such as Wikimedia Commons require that you also set a user agent through CURLOPT_USERAGENT
$output = curl_exec( $ch );
curl_close( $ch );

$result = json_decode( $output, true );
echo( $result['query']['tokens']['logintoken'] . "\n" );

Perl

#!/usr/bin/perl

# tokens.pl
# MediaWiki API Demos
# Demo of `Token` module: Fetch token of type `login`
# WTFPL

usestrict;
usewarnings;
useJSON;
useLWP::UserAgent;
useURI;

my$url=URI->new('https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php');
my%params=(
'action'=>'query',
'meta'=>'tokens',
'type'=>'login',
'format'=>'json',
);
$url->query_form(%params);
my$ua=LWP::UserAgent->new();
my$response=$ua->get($url);
my$data=JSON::decode_json($response->content);
my$login_token=$data->{'query'}{'tokens'}{'logintoken'};
print"$login_token\n";

Node.js

/*
 tokens.js
 MediaWiki API Demos
 Demo of `Token` module: Fetch token of type `login`
 MIT License
*/

varrequest=require('request'),
url="https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php";

varparams={
action:"query",
meta:"tokens",
type:"login",
format:"json"
};

request.get({url:url,qs:params},function(error,response,body){
body=JSON.parse(body);
console.log(body.query.tokens.logintoken);
});

MediaWiki JS

/*
 tokens.js
 MediaWiki API Demos
 Demo of `Token` module: Fetch token of type `csrf`
 MIT License
*/

varparams={
action:'query',
meta:'tokens',
type:'csrf',
format:'json'
},
api=newmw.Api();

api.get(params).done(function(data){
console.log(data.query.tokens.csrftoken);
});