[17:03:54] <Masterphi>	 Hello folks... I'm having an issue with getting CSRF tokens using the API with a bot password. (i'm using the mozilla wiki instance). Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. Anyone able to guide me? Here is the code I've tried https://paste.debian.net/hidden/794a5e45/
[17:34:07] <Lucas_WMDE>	 Masterphi: I don’t see anything wrong with that at a glance (though I’d generally recommend using a MediaWiki client library – for Python I like https://github.com/mediawiki-utilities/python-mwapi)
[17:34:29] <Lucas_WMDE>	 maybe check what the session.cookies look like? (they should be nonempty at the very least)
[17:34:50] <Masterphi>	 Yeah I see some cookies in there
[17:35:44] <Lucas_WMDE>	 I just noticed that line 49 is .post() but uses params= (unlike line 23, .get() with params=, or line 39, .post() with data=)
[17:35:46] <Masterphi>	 going to try the python lib
[17:35:56] <Lucas_WMDE>	 no idea if that makes a difference in requests
[17:37:25] <Masterphi>	 post does take in `data` --->   `def post(self, url, data=None, json=None, **kwargs):`
[17:40:23] <Lucas_WMDE>	 (I’m about to go afk but good luck…)
[17:56:41] <moonmoon>	 Masterphi: try dumping the response body of the login POST, it may contain a useful error message
[17:57:09] <moonmoon>	 (or just use a lib as previously suggested)
[17:57:09] <Masterphi>	 moonmoon the login seems to work
[17:59:10] <Masterphi>	 Sorry, I wasn't very specific on my initial message, the CSRF api is returning just `+\\`
[17:59:38] <Masterphi>	 there's no errors in any of the calls listed in the script
[18:00:53] <moonmoon>	 my guess is cookie handling not working
[22:02:27] <Masterphi>	 I'm assuming wiki_session is the cookie we care about, and it seems to be passing it along as it should, wouldn't the query/tokens endpoint return an error if there was a problem with the session/credentials?
[22:14:03] <Masterphi>	 Lucas_WMDE I tried mwapi, but couldn't get it to login using the lib methods
[23:27:01] <Vulpix>	 Masterphi: How long does your session last if you login without checking the "remember me" checkbox? Some installs may have broken sessions if they setup a very volatile $wgMainCacheType . From my understanding, the check forces recording the session on the database no matter what your main cache type is
[23:27:48] <Vulpix>	 I have to leave now, but this information may help others diagnose it