API:Import/en

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.