API:Patrol

This page is part of the MediaWiki Action API documentation.

MediaWiki version:

1.14

Token

To patrol a request, a patrol token is required. Since MediaWiki 1.17, the patrol token has no longer been the same as the edit token. The patrol token is the same for all pages, but changes at every login. Patrol tokens can be obtained via action=tokens with type=patrol (MW 1.20+), or by using the following method:

Obtaining a patrol token

api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rctoken=patrol&rclimit=1 [try in ApiSandbox]

Result

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <recentchanges rcstart="2008-09-06T10:49:06Z" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <recentchanges>
      <rc type="edit" ns="0" title="Sites using MediaWiki/uk"
        rcid="228053" pageid="25473" revid="210889"
        old_revid="210888" timestamp="2008-09-06T10:58:33Z"
        patroltoken="8f45aa1dfd9725b4d6a71c66959b111f+\" />
    </recentchanges>
  </query>
</api>

Patrolling changes

You can patrol changes using action=patrol. Note that this module only accepts POST requests.

Parameters

rcid: Recentchanges ID to patrol
revid: Revision ID to patrol
token: The token obtained in the previous request. Take care to encode the + as %2B

Example

Patrolling rcid 242005359

api.php?action=patrol&rcid=242005359&token=123ABC [try in ApiSandbox]

Result
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <api> <patrol rcid="242005359" /> </api>

Possible errors

In addition to the usual stuff:

Code	Info
nosuchrcid	There is no change with rcid "id"
patroldisabled	Patrolling is disabled on this wiki
noautopatrol	You don't have permission to patrol your own changes Note: Only users with the `autopatrol` right can do this