API:Import

POST request to import a page from another wiki (transwikiing) or from an xml file.

Import process
Importing a page is a multi-step process:   Log in using one of the methods described in.   GET a. This token is the same for all pages but changes at every login.

  Send a POST request with the CSRF token in order to import the page.  

The code samples below cover the third step in detail.

Possible errors
In addition to :

Parameter history

 * v1.29: Introduced
 * v1.20: Introduced

Additional notes

 * This module cannot be used as a.


 * rights are required in order to upload an xml file, while rights are required for interwiki imports.


 * If you get a  error, it is because you sent it url-encoded but claimed it would be multipart/form-data.  MediaWiki is looking for a boundary in the header but cannot find it.


 * Parameters marked with are only used when importing an uploaded XML file.  Similarly, parameters marked with  are only used when importing from another wiki (transwiki).


 * The possible values for the parameter differ per wiki, see  .  If the list of possible values for this parameter is empty, interwiki imports are disabled.