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Flask blueprint to connect to a MediaWiki OAuth server

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flask-mwoauth

Flask blueprint to run OAuth against MediaWiki's extension:OAuth.

The blueprint adds these uris:

  • /login - runs the OAuth handshake and returns the user to /
    • /login?next=/someurl will return the user to /someurl
  • /logout - clears the users' access tokens
    • /logout?next=/someurl will return the user to /someurl
  • /oauth-callback - callback from MW to finish the handshake

The users' OAuth key and secret are stored in the session.

In addition, flask-mwoauth adds a few convenience functions:

  1. get_current_user(cached=True) reports who the current user is. To confirm the user is still logged in (e.g. tokens have not been revoked), call it with cached=False.

  2. request(api_query) submits an request through the API, using the users' access tokens. For instance,

result = request({'action': 'query', 'meta': 'userinfo'})

fetches https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=userinfo and returns the result as Python dict, e.g.

{u'batchcomplete': u'', u'query': {u'userinfo': {u'id': 31344, u'name': u'Valhallasw'}}}

If you are authorized to access other wikis (e.g. en.wikipedia.org, although you authorized via mediawiki.org), you can run a request there using

result = request({'action': 'query', 'meta': 'userinfo'}, url='https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php')

For more information on using the api, please check the api documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page

The example app

An example app is implemented in demo.py.

  1. Go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose and fill in the following values:
  • Application name: test app
  • Application description: test app for flask-mwoauth
  • OAuth "callback" URL: http://localhost:5000/oauth-callback
  • Contact email address:
  • Leave all other values default.
  1. Click 'Propose consumer'. You now get a message stating

Your OAuth consumer request has been received.

You have been assigned a consumer token of and a secret token of . Please record these for future reference."

  1. Then

    $ python setup.py develop
    $ python demo.py
    NOTE: The callback URL you entered when proposing an OAuth consumer
    probably did not match the URL under which you are running this development
    server. Your redirect back will therefore fail -- please adapt the URL in
    your address bar to http://localhost:5000/oauth-callback?oauth_verifier=...etc
    
    Consumer key: <the consumer key you got>
    Consumer secret: <the consumer secret you got>
    

    You may need to re-enter the key and secret if the app reloads.

  2. Go to http://localhost:5000/ and click 'login'.

Projects using flask-mwoauth

To see how flask-mwoauth is used in applications, you can take a look at:

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