how to not log in for every single edit?

[rwst]

The way I use wikibase-cli (call wd with single edits) leads to unneccessary logins to Wikidata which is now discussed in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256533. They cite https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Login#Additional_notes where we can read: If you are sending a request that should be made by a logged-in user, add assert=user parameter to the request you are sending in order to check whether the user is logged in. If the user is not logged-in, an assertuserfailed error code will be returned.

Can your code do this between calls of wd? If not, can it be implemented? If not, would batch mode editing resolve it?

[maxlath]

yes, batch mode would resolve this.

Individual calls to wd do re-login every time, as cookies are not stored between sessions. We could consider implementing such a store. Alternatively, we could push people to use batch mode by displaying a warning when doing many successive edits without batch mode

[rwst]

Individual calls to wd do re-login every time, as cookies are not stored between sessions.

Something like this would be helpful in the documentation.

[maxlath]

@rwst your pull requests to improve the documentation are welcome.

[maxlath]

I assume we can consider this addressed by #122 and close for now