Ruby: Google Drive - Error=BadAuthentication (GoogleDrive::AuthenticationError) Info=InvalidSecondFactor
I’ve been using the Google Drive gem to try and interact with my Google Drive account and almost immediately ran into problems trying to login.
I started out with the following code:
require "rubygems"
require "google_drive"
session = GoogleDrive.login("me@mydomain.com", "mypassword")I’ll move it to use OAuth when I put it into my application but for spiking this approach works. Unfortunately I got the following error when running the script:
/Users/markneedham/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/google_drive-0.3.10/lib/google_drive/session.rb:93:in `rescue in login': Authentication failed for me@mydomain.com: Response code 403 for post https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin: Error=BadAuthentication (GoogleDrive::AuthenticationError)
Info=InvalidSecondFactor
from /Users/markneedham/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/google_drive-0.3.10/lib/google_drive/session.rb:86:in `login'
from /Users/markneedham/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/google_drive-0.3.10/lib/google_drive/session.rb:38:in `login'
from /Users/markneedham/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/google_drive-0.3.10/lib/google_drive.rb:18:in `login'
from src/gdoc.rb:15:in `<main>'Since I have two factor authentication enabled on my account it turns out that I need to create an app password to login:
It will then pop up with a password that we can use to login (I have revoked this one!):
We can then use this password instead and everything works fine:
require "rubygems"
require "google_drive"
session = GoogleDrive.login("me@mydomain.com", "tuceuttkvxbvrblf")About the author
I'm currently working on short form content at ClickHouse. I publish short 5 minute videos showing how to solve data problems on YouTube @LearnDataWithMark. I previously worked on graph analytics at Neo4j, where I also co-authored the O'Reilly Graph Algorithms Book with Amy Hodler.