Question: How to use mfa_code

[takabinance]

I can see there is some support to handle the main problem people seem to be having with banned accounts with login.login_two_factor_auth_challenge(). But not sure how it's connected in or how I can force its invocation. This code is way above my pay grade.

I was able to manually recover an account and updated cookies in accounts.db and then twscrape used it fine.

Does anyone know a way to invoke this and update accounts? I can probably hack together some Selenium thing but would rather not.

[vladkens]

Hi, @takabinance.

MFA code is used at login time only.

When you add accounts, you can specify the account's MFA code and then, if X asks for that login stap, twscrape will try to enter that code. But this process only works during login.

There are several methods in twscarpe to deal with inactive accounts:

    relogin                   Re-login selected accounts
    relogin_failed            Retry login for failed accounts

So you use it like (in command line). Try to relogin all failed accounts:

twscrape relogin_failed

Relogin specific accounts:

twscrape relogin acc1 acc2

Or use from code:

import asyncio

from twscrape import API, gather
from twscrape.models import parse_tweets

async def main():
    api = API()
    await api.pool.relogin(["acc1", "acc2"])
    await api.pool.relogin_failed()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

[takabinance]

Interesting. I will try this. I did it in selenium and then manually updated cookies in accounts.db and was able to use the account again. But will try the built-in functionality.

[takabinance]

I did the following:

api.pool.add_account(username, password, email, email_password, cookies, mfa_code)
await gather(api.search("elon musk", limit=20))

This worked. However, when I tried to force a login:

api.pool.relogin(['mytwitteruser'])

I got:

Failed to login 'AllgoodMar15077': 400 - {"errors":[{"code":399,"message":"Incorrect. Please try again."}]}

How can I interpret this?

[takabinance]

ok, so I manually went through the login (username -> email -> password -> 2fa). When I did that manually, it threw up a generic "something went wrong" modal and did not log me back in. However, I was on a VPN connection. I turned off the VPN connection and then it worked manually and also app.pool.relogin() worked as well.

[frameartist]

From the source code I read the mfa_code isn't the 6 digit number you type when you try to login. It's the 'secret' for generating the six digit code when you first setup 2fa, so if you are setting the 6 digits as the mfa_code, it probably won't work.