Unable to log in

ssmaitra

I am unable to login using the sample code shared in the Python client documentation. My redirect URL is set to http://127.0.0.1

I tried firing the URL https://kite.zerodha.com/connect/login?api_key=my_api_key from my browser and get the reply
{
"error_type": "ForbiddenError",
"message": "Invalid api_key",
"status": "error"
}
Note: I have already double checked the api_key.

Please suggest the next course of action.

ssmaitra

I am using requests library to make the query and following is the code snippet and its output.

Code
kite = KiteConnect(api_key=self.__api_key)

# Redirect the user to the login url obtained
# from kite.login_url(), and receive the request_token
# from the registered redirect url after the login flow.
# Once you have the request_token, obtain the access_token
# as follows.

print 'Login url: ', kite.login_url()
response = requests.get(kite.login_url(), allow_redirects=False)
print 'Status code: ', response.status_code
print 'Headers: ', response.headers
print 'History: ', response.history
print 'Reason: ', response.raw.reason
print 'Redrect url: ', response.headers['location']

Output
Login url: https://kite.trade/connect/login?api_key=09y9sc1765udoxpb
Status code: 302
Headers: CaseInsensitiveDict({'content-length': '154', 'server': 'nginx', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'location': 'https://kite.zerodha.com/connect/login?api_key=09y9sc1765udoxpb', 'date': 'Wed, 06 Jul 2016 19:30:37 GMT', 'content-type': 'text/html'})
History: []
Reason: Moved Temporarily
Redrect url: https://kite.zerodha.com/connect/login?api_key=09y9sc1765udoxpb

If you notice, the redirect URL does not contain the request_token. Can you check where could be the problem ?

RN0316

I am getting the same error.

Vivek

@ssmaitra Your app 'CountXTreme' which you tried to create is in pending state, it might be because some error while creating the app or making payments. I checked payment history and there were no payments made yet so please kindly add credits and activate the app.

ssmaitra

I am getting the error Insufficient balance. Please add funds to your Zerodha account. I have much more that the required 2000 credits in my Zerodha account. Can you check please?

Vivek

@ssmaitra Your ledger balance is ₹1,998.65 hence we couldn't deduct.

ssmaitra

I have paid using credit card and my app is active now. However, I am still facing the same issue. There is no request_token in the redirect url

Login url: https://kite.trade/connect/login?api_key=09y9sc1765udoxpb
Status code: 302
Headers: CaseInsensitiveDict({'content-length': '154', 'server': 'nginx', 'connection': 'keep-alive', 'location': 'https://kite.zerodha.com/connect/login?api_key=09y9sc1765udoxpb', 'date': 'Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:27:55 GMT', 'content-type': 'text/html'})
History: []
Reason: Moved Temporarily
Redrect url: https://kite.zerodha.com/connect/login?api_key=09y9sc1765udoxpb

ssmaitra

I tried firing the login url https://kite.trade/connect/login?api_key=09y9sc1765udoxpb from the browser and was directed to the login page. After logging in, I was able to see the request_token in the redirect url.

How do I log in automatically without prompting for login page? BTW, I will be storing passwords in a secure password vault.

Vivek

@ssmaitra User login flow is mandatory to obtain access_token and we can't provide full automation for that. You can check tool like selenium for that.

suraj

Hi @ssmaitra You can use python mechanize library to automate your obtaining request token and generating access token business. Its quite simple and takes around 7-11 secs to generate an access token.

Akki

Suraj can you paste sample code to get that?

Akki

using python mechanize library obtaining request token and generating access token throws invalid request token.

sampe code -
kite = KiteConnect(api_key)
#xyz = kite.login_url()
#print "kite" ,kite
#browser= mechanize.Browser()
#browser.add_password('https://kite.trade/connect/login?api_key=xxxx', 'xxxx', 'xxxx')
#response = browser.open('https://kite.trade/connect/login?api_key=xxxx')
#xyz = response.geturl()
#print xyz
#request_token =xyz[47:79]
#print request_token

neerajgoyal12

I am able to successfully submit this form and get a response on redirect url using selenium and python, I have a problem though that it start asking to launch kite app on mobile and key in 6 digit OTP, for algo trading this wont be possible to do, can you suggest a way out.

neerajgoyal12

Also, for retail algo traders is there a plan to disable this web browser dependency for login and make it pure rest api based with token refresh etc. ?

sujith

@neerajgoyal12,
It is mandatory by the exchange that a user has to login manually at least once a day. We don't recommend automating login.