mwoauth is an open licensed (MIT) library designed to provide a simple means to performing an OAuth handshake with a MediaWiki installation with the OAuth Extension installed.
Compatible with python 3.x
Install with pip: pip install mwoauth
Documentation: http://pythonhosted.org/mwoauth
from mwoauth import ConsumerToken, Handshaker # Construct a "consumer" from the key/secret provided by MediaWiki import config consumer_token = ConsumerToken(config.consumer_key, config.consumer_secret) # Construct handshaker with wiki URI and consumer handshaker = Handshaker("https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php", consumer_token) # Step 1: Initialize -- ask MediaWiki for a temporary key/secret for user redirect, request_token = handshaker.initiate() # Step 2: Authorize -- send user to MediaWiki to confirm authorization print("Point your browser to: %s" % redirect) # response_qs = input("Response query string: ") # Step 3: Complete -- obtain authorized key/secret for "resource owner" access_token = handshaker.complete(request_token, response_qs) print(str(access_token)) # Step 4: Identify -- (optional) get identifying information about the user identity = handshaker.identify(access_token) print("Identified as {username}.".format(**identity))