This is an auto-generated MediaWiki API documentation page.
Documentation and examples:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page
- 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
.
Specific parameters:
- lgname
Username.
- lgpassword
Password.
- lgdomain
Domain (optional).
- lgtoken
A "login" token retrieved from
action=query&meta=tokens