Bug: Twitter Authentication fails on Cloud. Error 399

[yongkangc]

Describe the bug

I am trying to deploy eliza on gce, however i am getting error on authentication error 399 when logging in causing the login to fail.

{
  "errors": [{
    "code": 399,
    "message": "Incorrect. Please try again. g;173669734519940919:-1736697345244:ILSZ2qNWESdWgKjC1KLSxaWZ:8"
  }]
}

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[AIFlowML]

Twitter saw that you are into a Google sever and probably enforced a block because of that.

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[rferrari]

login manually, grab the Applications -> Cookies -> auth_token from inspect tab.

insert it on ENV TWITTER_COOKIES=auth_token:YOUR-COOKIE

[squintdev]

login manually, grab the Applications -> Cookies -> auth_token from inspect tab.

insert it on ENV TWITTER_COOKIES=auth_token:YOUR-COOKIE

Does the "YOUR-COOKIE" part (the actual auth token) have to be in quotes or anything? I'm still not able to log in to Twitter.

[rferrari]

lol

no, just add:

TWITTER_COOKIES=auth_token:xXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXX

yes, you need "auth_token" and then : then your actual cookie token

[squintdev]

NVM I figured it out. Email address was wrong.

[karolproksa]

lol

no, just add:

TWITTER_COOKIES=auth_token:xXXXXXXXX-XXXXXXX

yes, you need "auth_token" and then : then your actual cookie token

i have the same issue and the cookie method doesn't work for me unfortunately.

i also noticed that i get an email with the confirmation code when i run the agent and it tries to log in

do you happen to have any other ideas how to solve that? i noticed that when i tried automating a different (test) account, it worked perfectly (and i did it from the same network, computer, etc.).

it must have something to do with twitter's flagging of the account i guess

[karolproksa]

i found a solution!

what u need to do is:
1/ go to the agent's twitter -> settings -> security and account access -> security -> two-factor authentication
2/ enable Authentication App
3/ click the button under the QR code to view it as string (it's 16 uppercase letters and numbers) - this is your 2FA SECRET
4/ complete the 2fa setup with an app like google authenticator
5/ add the 2fa secret to your .env file like this:
TWITTER_2FA_SECRET="YOUR_SECRET_CODE"

[AdamCuellar]

i found a solution!

what u need to do is: 1/ go to the agent's twitter -> settings -> security and account access -> security -> two-factor authentication 2/ enable Authentication App 3/ click the button under the QR code to view it as string (it's 16 uppercase letters and numbers) - this is your 2FA SECRET 4/ complete the 2fa setup with an app like google authenticator 5/ add the 2fa secret to your .env file like this: TWITTER_2FA_SECRET="YOUR_SECRET_CODE"

This should be marked as the solution, only thing that has worked so far!