wp api test

const request = require('request').defaults({jar: true})

const url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php"
const csrf_token = // output of mw.user.tokens.get('csrfToken') from my JS console

const params = {
    action: "edit",
    title: "User:Satricious/sandbox",
    appendtext: "test edit",
    token: csrf_token,
    format: "json"
}

request.post({ url: url, form: params }, (error, res, body) => {
    if (error) return

    console.log(body)
})

/* The output I get:

{"error":{"code":"badtoken","info":"Invalid CSRF token.","*":"See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-api-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes."},"servedby":"mw1343"}

*/