Re: New global API rate limits
Jonathan Tweed via Wikitech-l <[email protected]> Tue, 3 Mar 2026 19:03:33 +0000
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On Mon, 2 Mar 2026 at 21:42, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm using the python-social-auth library. As far as I can tell, it only supports OAuth 1. > > https://python-social-auth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/backends/mediawiki.html That does look to be the case and I'm not sure that it implements cookie support directly. It may be possible to use requests.Session alongside this to implement the cookie support, as it uses requests_oauthlib.OAuth1 to handle the authentication. More generally we are open to helping improve community libraries, either through code review or more active contribution.