Can't Login on Twitch with Selenium

Question

I have a problem to login on twitch with selenium. After the bot has entered the credentials (I also tried to enter them manually) the error message appears: "Something went wrong. Please try again." And it won't let me in.

Any suggestions?

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time

def start_twitch_viewer():

    PATH = r"./Local/twitch-stream-viewer/chromedriver"
    email = 'username@gmail.com'
    usr = 'Username'
    pswd = 'Password'


    chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()

    try:

        driver = webdriver.Chrome(PATH, options=chrome_options)
        driver.get("https://www.twitch.tv/ChannelName")
        driver.header_overrides = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"}

    except:
        return
    
    time.sleep(10)
    driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[class='Layout-sc-nxg1ff-0 csWXEI']").click()
    time.sleep(5)
    username=driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[id='login-username']")
    password=driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "input[id='password-input']")
    username.clear()
    password.clear()
    username.send_keys(usr)
    password.send_keys(pswd)
    time.sleep(5)
    driver.find_element(By.CSS_SELECTOR, "div[class='Layout-sc-nxg1ff-0 OZCSg']").click()
    

    time.sleep(1000)




if __name__ == "__main__":
    start_twitch_viewer()

EDIT: This is the file based on the suggestion given by @Lenta.

    chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
    chrome_options.add_argument("user-data-dir=/Users/usr/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome")
    chrome_options.add_argument("profile-directory=Profile 3")
    chrome_options.add_experimental_option("detach", True)
    
    try:

        driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=PATH, options=chrome_options)
        driver.set_window_position(0, 0)
        driver.set_window_size(1440, 900)
        driver.get("https://www.twitch.tv/user")
        
    except:
        return

Answer 1

To fix this issue "Something went wrong. Please try again." you can use your own chrome profile, but it's better to create a new one to work with selenium, since the main profile will load all installed extensions that may not work with selenium.

How to create a new profile you can see here: How to open a Chrome Profile through Python

To add your profile use the following code:

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=O:\\Users\\Username\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\User Data")
options.add_argument("profile-directory=profile_directory_name")
service = Service(executable_path='path\to\your\chromedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=options)

If you get the error "selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidArgumentException: Message: invalid argument: user data directory is already in use, please specify a unique value for --user-data-dir argument, or don't use --user-data-dir" you need to close your main browser as it blocks the browser launching from selenium

Or you can use a profile from another browser such as firefox or edge but for this you need to install the necessary webdriver geckodriver or edgedriver.

To add your profile from firefox:

options = webdriver.FirefoxOptions()
options.add_argument("-profile")
options.add_argument("O:\\Users\\Username\\AppData\\Roaming\\Mozilla\\Firefox\\Profiles\\wfpwqtvd.default-release")
service = Service(executable_path='path\to\your\geckodriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Firefox(service=service, options=options)

To add your profile from edge:

options = webdriver.EdgeOptions()
options.add_argument("user-data-dir=O:\\Users\\Username\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Edge\\User Data")
options.add_argument("profile-directory=profile_directory_name")
service = Service(executable_path='path\to\your\msedgedriver.exe')
driver = webdriver.Edge(service=service, options=options)

Answer 2

It looks like the www.twitch.tv website is using a Fastly security tool.

A quick DNS lookup shows that www.twitch.tv resolves to twitch.map.fastly.net.

They are most likely using the Signal Sciences product (https://www.signalsciences.com/about-us/news/fastly-to-acquire-signal-sciences/). I have encountered this on another website recently.

Typically rotating user agents and IP addresses (ideally using residential proxies) should do the trick. You want to load up the site with a "fresh" browser profile each time.

Answer 3

I tried that and saw the Something went wrong. notification displayed.
I'm quite sure that site is blocking automated tools like Selenium to prevent boots there.
Try using undetected Selenium.

Answer 4

I believe certain Twitch users have been having issues logging in these past few days so it may be related. I had the "Something went wrong" error on Brave when trying to login but it worked on Edge. There's this article reporting the issue from a couple of days ago:

https://piunikaweb.com/2022/09/30/twitch-users-unable-to-login-getting-something-went-wrong-error/