Mailing List Archive: End-points for Showing CAPTCHA

On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 4:01?PM Shashank Kumar via Wikitech-l <
wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I am contributing to wikimedia-commons android app and we encountered a
> case where we need to show CAPTCHA within the app, is there any end-points
> available for this ? To Complete the CAPTCHA verification when it's
> required ?
>

It's integrated in the endpoints for the actions that involve solving a
captcha. Usually it involves submitting a 'captchaid' and 'captchaword' (or
in some cases 'captchaId' and 'captchaWord') parameters after having
received the captcha ID and the captcha image URL. For the login/signup
apis you can learn those via the authmanagerinfo endpoint, for most other
APIs you need to submit the data without a captcha first, and the error you
get in response will contain those parameters.
See e.g.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Account_creation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Login
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit