Unable to authenticate with tools/credentials_builder.py

[jeremyis78]

I'm trying to get a credential file saved but having trouble.

As it was suggested as the easiest method, I'm using the python/tools credential_builder.py.
I ran the dependencies
python setup.py install (from project's python directory)
and
pip install cefpython3

Then I tried the credentials_builder.py and after it brings up the dialog and I enter creds, do 2FA, allow all the things, click Allow and then I get a blank page in that window and the credentials file is never saved as my ~/tda-creds is still a zero byte file. I'm getting the following (had to kill it to get it to stop); I tried this three times, same result (G...I is my edited Consumer Key):

`➜ tools git:(master) ✗ python credential_builder.py --redirect-uri http://127.0.0.1 [email protected] ~/tda-creds re******

• Successfully loaded: libTDAmeritradeAPI.so
• Last Build: Jan 15 2022 - 00:12:35
• Extract Args...
• Confirm password: re******
• File already exists, overwrite? (yes/no): yes
  Library Path: N/A
  Redirect URI: http://127.0.0.1
  Client ID: [email protected]
  Credential Path: /Users/myuser/tda-creds
  Credential Password: re******

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:58598/devtools/browser/e8fe8456-08d9-4606-905f-b5c94c0af902
[0115/041242.037414:ERROR:BudgetService.cpp(160)] Unable to connect to the Mojo BudgetService.
[0115/041307.352655:ERROR:BudgetService.cpp(160)] Unable to connect to the Mojo BudgetService.
[0115/041309.341600:ERROR:BudgetService.cpp(160)] Unable to connect to the Mojo BudgetService.
[0115/041323.484688:ERROR:BudgetService.cpp(160)] Unable to connect to the Mojo BudgetService.
[0115/041341.099560:ERROR:BudgetService.cpp(160)] Unable to connect to the Mojo BudgetService.
^C`

My developer app at TDAmeritrade uses http://127.0.0.1.
I'm using Python 3.7.2. And I also built the library on MacOS (works great, btw) and installed it in /user/local/lib as both .so and .dylib (as the Java test/java/Test.java ends up looking for that extension on a Mac/Darwin; python finds the .so as seen above), not sure if that's an issue. Any idea what the issue is? Is this Mojo BudgetService an indicator of a problem?

I also tried opening tools/get-access-code.html in a browser but apparently I tried too many times with credential_builder.py as TDA says something like someone may be trying to log in to your account unauthorized; give us a call if you have questions.

[jeog]

It's been a while since I used this script, but sounds like the RequestHandler is hanging. First thing I would do is add some debug print statements to the script inside of get_access_code_from_web_interface(...) and RequestHandler::OnResourceRedirect(...) to confirm its an issue with cefpython3. If that's not the issue you may be able to use the --access-code-out switch to dump the raw access code to a file.

If it is an issue w/ cefpython3 you'll probably need to use a different approach to get the access code, which I see you tried w/ get-access-code.html. If TDA is blocking it you may need to delete the developer app and create a new one. If you are able to get the access code manually you can create the credentials file w/ creds_from_access_code.py

[jeremyis78]

So I was able to see (partially) what's going on. When using the --redirect-uri set to http://127.0.0.1 I was NOT able to get past the line
if self._redirect_uri in new_url: and since there's no else to that if I'm not made aware as to what's going on. I added an else and found that the new_url was actually 'https://127.0.0.1/?code=oo6sqcbzH9...' and so that was why self.code = self._parse_redirect_url(new_url) was not being called (http vs https).

I changed my app at TDA to use https://127.0.0.1 and then called credential_builder.py without the redirect-uri and with a print statement to print the code directly after the parse line. The code was printed, but it appears control was never returned from the RequestHandler because a print statement for the code after code = get_access_code_from_web_interface(client_id, redirect_uri) in main() is never called. So it appears there may be some issue getting a credential file saved using just the credential_builder.py. I'm unsure the exact issue other than what I described. I'd be curious if this way of getting credentials works completely on linux; I tried on ubuntu 20.04 but had trouble getting python to load the shared library (libTDAmeritradeAPI.so). Does it work for you on linux, jeog?

I was able to grab the code and then use creds_from_access.py to create a credential file. I was then able to reference that credential file when running the Java test at test/java/Test.java.

Edit: I also tried using --access-code-out but it was hanging up before getting there.