]> 2026-04-30T17:05:47+02:00 FlexFormBot 50000 en Doc 10 Trigger a FlexForm action Developer FlexFormBot (1.1,2.0,2.1,2.5) 1.1 2.0 2.1 2.5 FlexFormBot 2022-04-04T11:54:11Z 2459673.9959607 FlexFormBot 2025-12-22T14:26:16Z 2461032.1015741 Doc/FlexForm/1.1/API/FlexFormBot 144 Name API Type FlexFormBot Synopsis Trigger a FlexForm action. Description Trigger a FlexForm action. Currently only the email trigger is available. With this API function you can use FlexForm as a newsletter engine. Create a Python function or a Maintenance script that is triggered using a Cron job to send newsletters automatically utilizing the additional data attribute to have you script add the BCC email addresses. Parameters trigger - What function needs to be triggered within FlexForm. This parameter is required. data - Extra data needed for the Trigger function. Depends on the trigger action. Please read the manual for more information. title - Title needed for the Trigger function. Depends on the trigger action. Please read the manual for more information. token - A " csrf " token retrieved from action=query&meta=tokens. This parameter is required. Trigger email With this trigger you can send an email, based on the email-template. The email trigger also needs a title of a page. That page needs to be setup as a full email template. Read the docs "email" on how to setup such a template. Additionally, you can use the data attribute to add BCC addresses to an email. Format is a JSON { "bcc": "Charlot [charlot@wikibase.nl], exampleuser [user@example.com]" } Example Make a call using the csrf token to the MediaWiki API To = api.php action = FlexFormBot trigger = email title = Email template page token = <your csrf token> Return format The API result will be in a JSON format. When an error occurs, you will have an error field present where you can read its message. Example of an error { "FlexFormBot" : { "error" : { "message" : "The page you specified doesn't exist." , "request" : { "trigger" : "email" , "title" : "Email_template_test" , "data" : null } } } } Example of success { "FlexFormBot" : { "result" : { "request" : { "trigger" : "email" , "title" : "Email_template_test" , "data" : null }, "message" : "success" } } } Note You need to add the csrf token with every request to FlexFormBot 50000 0 plainlist 1 [[:DevOps:Doc/FlexForm/1.1/API/FlexFormBot]] Doc/FlexForm/1.1/API/FlexFormBot# QUERY73947c657d0db63db43118ca3cdafa30 DevOps:Doc/FlexForm/1.0.1/API/FlexFormBot 50000 en Doc/FlexForm/1.0.1/API/FlexFormBot REDI 102 en REDI