API talk:User group membership

Getting a token doesn't work. There is no (more) value named "users" for "list" as written in the displayed error help screen.

Empty added/removed fields with correct rights

Hello everyone,

I'm having hard times to make the API work, especially with the userrights action : No matter the account, the API response will always have the added/removed fields empty.

All my tokens & logins calls are fine and have correct answers from the api, but the userrights seems a bit capricious...

From an account that belongs to both bureaucrats and bots groups (let's call it user_dev), I created a bot named user_dev@bot.

I then gave my user user_dev@bot all the rights I could, and allowed him on every IP address as specified in the help box below :

0.0.0.0/0

::/0

Now, when I use this bot account to change any user's group (To add or to remove from groups), the fields added/removed from the api response are always empty...

I tried from postman and python but it didn't change anything...

It says in the wiki's additional notes

• If you do not possess the ability to grant or remove rights to the target user, the API will not throw an error; instead, the add and remove fields in the response will simply contain empty arrays.

But it looks like I have all the rights to make these changes...

Could someone help me with this ? I would greatly appreciate

Thank you !

Maxence 163.62.112.95 15:48, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Have you tried changing rights from the wiki directly at Special:UserRights? Maybe not actually changing, but checking if it allows you to mark the checks to add the groups you want to change. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 16:08, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

I have tried that and it does allow me to check/uncheck all the checkboxes ! I can do everything from the UI but the API won't let me...

Maxence 163.62.112.95 16:20, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Another thing to check is to be sure you're actually logged in when performing the action. For example, action=query&meta=userinfo gives information about your current user. If it doesn't display your account information, this means you're not logged in. This may happen if you forget to log-in and/or store the cookies received during login and send them on next requests. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 22:06, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip, however, I'm logged in, action=query&meta=userinfo gives me the right information about the user account I'm using... So there must be something else... I just don't know what... 163.62.112.125 07:23, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm out of ideas too. Sorry. If it doesn't work, it may be worth a bugreport providing all the details. Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 22:23, 1 February 2024 (UTC)