MediaWiki 1.37/Deprecation of legacy API token parameters

On September 1 2021, we will remove deprecated parameters that were used to obtain tokens in MediaWiki API. If your script/tool/bot or gadget is using these deprecated parameters on Wikimedia Foundation wikis, it will break unless you migrate it before September 1 2021.

Before MediaWiki 1.24 (2014, change 153110), API tokens were obtained by using various different "token" parameters in different Action APIs. In November 2014, these were deprecated, in favour of a central CSRF token query. The API responses for the deprecated features has included deprecation warnings for the past six years.

Affected features
Example deprecation warning: Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes. Use Special:ApiFeatureUsage to see usage of deprecated features by your application.

What to use instead
Since 2014,  is the central way to obtain CSRF tokens from the API.

For example, to obtain a patrol token and edit token, use: api.php?action=query&meta=tokens&type=watch|patrol For more examples and help, check out the API:Tokens manual on mediawiki.org.