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Login doesn't work after the steam chat update

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Since chat got updated by steam, it gives an error on chat._login while trying to login with .login . Here is the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/cagri/Desktop/py/trade.py", line 65, in <module>
    steam_client.login(steamusername, steampassword, "Steamguard.txt")
  File "C:\Users\cagri\Desktop\py\venv\lib\site-packages\steampy\client.py", line 44, in login
    self.chat._login()
  File "C:\Users\cagri\Desktop\py\venv\lib\site-packages\steampy\chat.py", line 38, in _login
    self._chat_params["access_token"] = self._get_access_token()
  File "C:\Users\cagri\Desktop\py\venv\lib\site-packages\steampy\chat.py", line 19, in _get_access_token
    access_token = token_pattern.search(str(elems[0])).group(1)
IndexError: list index out of range

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Created 5 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:9 (3 by maintainers)

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Phalelashvilicommented, Jul 7, 2018

any updates?

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alexmi1commented, Jun 21, 2018

The cause of this issue is steam chat got updated and steampy relies on extracting an access token from html, which is then used to interact with the chat via Steam’s Web API. I tried changing it so it correctly extracts the token. However those Web API methods are undocumented and they may have stopped working properly or been changed along with the update. It’s also possible I just did something wrong. Either way, I think doing it the way other steam libraries do it would be a better solution, not relying on the Web API for chat.