AuthenticationError: Update to the newest version of Robinhood to access this feature.

[Andersacc9]

Checklist

• I am on the latest pyrh version.
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

Description

Crashes when running from pyrh import Robinhood rh = Robinhood(username="email", password="password")
This error shows up when you login with correct credentials, however it doesn't ask 2FA.

Steps/Code to Reproduce

Run the program with successful credentials

A different error will pop up if you provide the wrong credential as usual saying that the password or email is incorrect, meaning the connection between the api and robinhood still works.

Results

File "/home/runner/HeftyRedundantElement/main.py", line 4, in <module> rh.login() File "/home/runner/HeftyRedundantElement/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyrh/models/sessionmanager.py", line 162, in login self._login_oauth2() File "/home/runner/HeftyRedundantElement/.pythonlibs/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyrh/models/sessionmanager.py", line 453, in _login_oauth2 raise AuthenticationError(msg) pyrh.exceptions.AuthenticationError: Update to the newest version of Robinhood to access this feature.

Versions

Linux-6.2.16-x86_64-with-glibc2.39
Python 3.10.14 (main, Mar 19 2024, 21:46:16) [GCC 13.3.0]
pyrh 2.1.2

[cejohnson]

I took a look at what requests the website front end was sending, and saw they're currently sending this version header:

X-Robinhood-API-Version: 1.431.4

whereas pyrh is sending version 1.0.0 by default.

pyrh/pyrh/models/sessionmanager.py

Line 42 in e301e80

"X-Robinhood-API-Version": "1.0.0",

Setting headers = {"X-Robinhood-API-Version": "1.431.4"} and passing that into the constructor fixed it for me, but I fully expect this to crop up again at some point.

[patrocinio]

Hey @cejohnson, how are you setting the header? Thanks!

[cejohnson]

You can pass them in as a kwarg to the constructor:

headers = {"X-Robinhood-API-Version": "1.431.4"}
rh = Robinhood(username=args["username"], password=args["password"], mfa=args["mfa"], headers=headers)
rh.login()

I assumed the headers passed in here would be merged with the default headers, and the SessionManager docstring seems to support that, but I'm not seeing this actually happen in the code so it may be a full replacement. However, the above is working for me.

[adithyabsk]

You can pass them in as a kwarg to the constructor:

headers = {"X-Robinhood-API-Version": "1.431.4"}
rh = Robinhood(username=args["username"], password=args["password"], mfa=args["mfa"], headers=headers)
rh.login()

I assumed the headers passed in here would be merged with the default headers, and the SessionManager docstring seems to support that, but I'm not seeing this actually happen in the code so it may be a full replacement. However, the above is working for me.

pyrh/pyrh/models/sessionmanager.py

Line 105 in e301e80

self.session.headers = HEADERS if headers is None else headers

Actually, it replaces--if you put up a PR. I can cut a release. We may actually want a better solution here, where users can change the API version on the fly.

[cejohnson]

PR created.

I thought about adding an api_version kwarg to the __init__ but figured that could introduce ambiguity and complexity around whether that argument or headers took precedence... so instead I just bumped the version to keep things simple.

[takoora]

@cejohnson
I am still getting the original error after doing the following changes:

from pyrh.models.sessionmanager import HEADERS
HEADERS["X-Robinhood-API-Version"] = "1.143.4" # as of today [2024-12-05] this is the version

sm = SessionManager(
    username=username,
    password=password.get_secret_value(),
    mfa=secret.get_secret_value(),
    headers=HEADERS
)

sm.login()

Error:
AuthenticationError: Update to the newest version of Robinhood to access this feature.

[cejohnson]

Yeah, it stopped working for me in the last day or two as well. It looks like they're now rejecting the default user-agent with the "update" error, but if I change that I get:

pyrh.exceptions.AuthenticationError: Unknown login error

which really isn't an improvement. I don't see any obvious differences from the flow in the browser vs what the code seems to be doing, but apparently something changed somewhere. If I have time I'll try to look into it later.

[RobertAgee]

The problem is talked about in another RH repo... Looks like they solved it.
jmfernandes/robin_stocks#510