[twitter] fix login with username & password

It is no longer possible to get an 'authenticity_token' from Twitter's
Javascript-free login form, which got disabled few days ago.

Generating a random 16 byte hex string client-side and sending that as
a cookie alongside the regular login form works just as well.
pull/1229/head
Mike Fährmann 4 years ago
parent d1903589a5
commit b656b829db
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# Changelog
## Unreleased
## 1.16.1 - 2020-12-27
### Additions
- [instagram] add `include` option ([#1180](https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/issues/1180))

@ -239,30 +239,29 @@ class TwitterExtractor(Extractor):
def _login_impl(self, username, password):
self.log.info("Logging in as %s", username)
url = "https://mobile.twitter.com/i/nojs_router"
params = {"path": "/login"}
headers = {"Referer": self.root + "/", "Origin": self.root}
page = self.request(
url, method="POST", params=params, headers=headers, data={}).text
token = util.generate_csrf_token()
self.session.cookies.clear()
self.request(self.root + "/login")
pos = page.index('name="authenticity_token"')
token = text.extract(page, 'value="', '"', pos)[0]
url = "https://mobile.twitter.com/sessions"
url = self.root + "/sessions"
cookies = {
"_mb_tk": token,
}
data = {
"redirect_after_login" : "/",
"remember_me" : "1",
"authenticity_token" : token,
"wfa" : "1",
"ui_metrics" : "{}",
"session[username_or_email]": username,
"session[password]" : password,
"remember_me" : "1",
"wfa" : "1",
"commit" : "+Log+in+",
"ui_metrics" : "",
}
response = self.request(url, method="POST", data=data)
response = self.request(
url, method="POST", cookies=cookies, data=data)
cookies = {
cookie.name: cookie.value
for cookie in self.session.cookies
if cookie.domain == self.cookiedomain
}
if "/error" in response.url or "auth_token" not in cookies:

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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
# published by the Free Software Foundation.
__version__ = "1.16.1"
__version__ = "1.16.2-dev"

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