API has changed - leads to LoginError

[MattLabs2004]

Whenever I try to run this code I get this error
I have tried searching for solutions but most are a few years old and didn't work.
Any help would be appreciated

[tazdevil1]

I can't login since 2/14/2018:

C:\Users\johndoe\Anaconda3\python.exe
... xyz.py

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\johndoe\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\googlevoice\voice.py", line 99, in login
assert self.special
AssertionError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
....
voice.login()
File "C:\Users\johndoe\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\googlevoice\voice.py", line 101, in login
raise util.LoginError
googlevoice.util.LoginError

[slow-quick]

Turned on debugger in PyCharm and the issue is in module voice.py, class Voice
def special(self):
"""
Returns special identifier for your session (if logged in)
"""
if getattr(self, '_special', None):
return self._special
pattern = re.compile(r"('_rnr_se':) '(.+)'")
resp = self.session.get(settings.INBOX).text
try:
sp = pattern.search(resp).group(2)
except AttributeError:
sp = None
self._special = sp
return sp

Strangely the resp does not contain the pattern, there's even no string '_rnr_se'.

[noor01]

I have been receiving the same issue since the beginning of this month as @tazdevil1 pointed out. Probably Google Voice has changed their AngularJS interface again, breaking the pygooglevoice scraper yet again (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42097689/pygoogle-voice-not-logging-in).

I personally have no idea how to fix the scraper but am hoping that someone is able to make the quick fix!

[668168]

same issue,too

[jaraco]

The best course of action may be to focus on #7, although I'd happily accept a patch to retain the current behavior. Or it may be the case that the new HTML app is actually using the new API, in which case #7 is probably the shortest path to success. I won't have time to develop this myself, but I welcome contributions.

[kolbashj]

Also having the same problem...

[dougollerenshaw]

I'm getting the same error trying to run on a raspberry pi:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/pi/miniconda3/envs/googlevoice/lib/python3.4/site-packages/googlevoice/voice.py", line 99, in login
    assert self.special
AssertionError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/pi/miniconda3/envs/googlevoice/lib/python3.4/site-packages/googlevoice/voice.py", line 101, in login
    raise util.LoginError
googlevoice.util.LoginError

Looks like the suggestion or work on #7 is stalled out.

Does anyone have ideas for a fix, or suggestions for other packages that allow GoogleVoice access with Python?

[jaraco]

It does not work.

[nijave]

Looks like the current login page requires Javascript

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Seems like the web client does
GET https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/iframerpc?action=listSessions&client_id=301778431048-buvei725iuqqkne1ao8it4lm0gmel7ce.apps.googleusercontent.com&origin=https://voice.google.com&scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/googlevoice https://www.googleapis.com/auth/notifications https://www.googleapis.com/auth/peopleapi.readwrite https://www.googleapis.com/auth/sipregistrar-3p&ss_domain=https://voice.google.com

which returns a list of sessions (which lines up with the account selector in the top right on the web gui). Then it does
GET https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/iframerpc?action=issueToken&response_type=token&login_hint=<ID FROM THE PREVIOUS COMMAND>&client_id=301778431048-buvei725iuqqkne1ao8it4lm0gmel7ce.apps.googleusercontent.com&origin=https://voice.google.com&scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/googlevoice https://www.googleapis.com/auth/notifications https://www.googleapis.com/auth/peopleapi.readwrite https://www.googleapis.com/auth/sipregistrar-3p&ss_domain=https://voice.google.com
which returns a bearer token.

After that, it's then making requests like
POST https://content.googleapis.com/voice/v1/voiceclient/<some operation>/get?alt=protojson

So I guess the first part is to "login" to a Google account which sets some cookies (maybe some other project has done that?). After that step, it looks like you just issue a bearer token and go with that

[vpzomtrrfrt]

From further experimentation, it appears that the iframerpc calls require the header "X-Requested-With: XmlHttpRequest" and the cookies "SID", "__Secure_3PSID", and "LSID" in order to return a result

[vpzomtrrfrt]

Incoming messages can be listed with https://content.googleapis.com/voice/v1/voiceclient/api2thread/list?alt=json (the site uses "alt=protojson" but json is also available and seems nicer). I send a POST request with the body [2,20,15,null,null,[null,true,true]] (dunno what it means but it works) and a Content-Type of "application/json+protobuf".

Messages can be sent with https://content.googleapis.com/voice/v1/voiceclient/api2thread/sendsms?alt=json. The body for this is a 9-element array (at least in the one example I saw):

• 0-3 are all null
• 4 contains the message text
• 5 contains the Thread ID to send to
• 6 is an empty array
• 7 is null
• 8 is a one-element array. The element is a number which appears to be used as a nonce (if another request is sent with the same nonce, it is ignored)

[xloem]

It would make sense to stabilize the code in a way that requires the user to extract data from the browser for now.

[nicholasf-at-schultztechnology]

If you take the returned data and bring it into the browser you get this:

And I guess that's already been established, but adding my 2 cents in.