PHP file to edit the wikipage

.gitignore

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 node_modules
-package-lock.json
+package-lock.json
+cookie.txt

php/edit.php

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+<?php
+
+/*
+    edit.py
+    MediaWiki API Demos
+    Demo of `Edit` module: POST request to edit a page
+    MIT license
+*/
+
+$endPoint = "https://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php";
+
+$login_Token = getLoginToken();
+loginRequest( $login_Token );
+$csrf_Token = getCSRFToken();
+editRequest($csrf_Token);
+
+// Get the Login token
+function getLoginToken() {
+	global $endPoint;
+
+	$params1 = [
+		"action" => "query",
+		"meta" => "tokens",
+		"type" => "login",
+		"format" => "json"
+	];
+
+	$url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params1 );
+
+	$ch = curl_init( $url );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt" );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt" );
+
+	$output = curl_exec( $ch );
+	curl_close( $ch );
+
+	$result = json_decode( $output, true );
+	return $result["query"]["tokens"]["logintoken"];
+}
+
+// POST Request to log in. Use of main account for login is not
+// supported. Obtain credentials via Special:BotPasswords
+// (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:BotPasswords) for lgname & lgpassword
+function loginRequest( $logintoken ) {
+	global $endPoint;
+
+	$params2 = [
+		"action" => "login",
+		"lgname" => "bot_user_name",
+		"lgpassword" => "bot_password",
+		"lgtoken" => $logintoken,
+		"format" => "json"
+	];
+
+	$ch = curl_init();
+
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $endPoint );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query( $params2 ) );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt" );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt" );
+
+	$output = curl_exec( $ch );
+	curl_close( $ch );
+
+}
+
+// Get csrf token for edit
+function getCSRFToken() {
+	global $endPoint;
+
+	$params3 = [
+		"action" => "query",
+		"meta" => "tokens",
+		"format" => "json"
+	];
+
+	$url = $endPoint . "?" . http_build_query( $params3 );
+
+	$ch = curl_init( $url );
+
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt" );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt" );
+
+	$output = curl_exec( $ch );
+	curl_close( $ch );
+
+	$result = json_decode( $output, true );
+	return $result["query"]["tokens"]["csrftoken"];
+}
+
+// Post request for edit
+function editRequest( $csrftoken ) {
+	global $endPoint;
+
+	$params4 = [
+		"action" => "edit",
+		"title" => "Sandbox",
+		"appendtext" => "Hello",
+		"token" => $csrftoken,
+		"format" => "json"
+	];
+
+	$ch = curl_init();
+
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $endPoint );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST, true );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query( $params4 ) );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, "cookie.txt" );
+	curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, "cookie.txt" );
+
+	$output = curl_exec( $ch );
+	curl_close( $ch );
+
+	echo ( $output );
+}