Failed to log in with a leetcode.com account

🐛 Bug Report

I can’t log into my leetcode.com account via vscode plugin, but I can log in with the same email & password in the browser. In contrast, my leetcode-cn.com account seems to work fine with this vscode plugin.

To Reproduce

None

Expected behavior

Log into my leetcode.com account.

Extension Output

login:  Active  Name               Version         Desc
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   ✔     solution.discuss   2019.02.03      Plugin to fetch most voted solution in discussions.
   ✔     company            2017.12.18      Plugin to query by company for free user.
   ✔     cache              default         Plugin to provide local cache.
   ✔     retry              default         Plugin to retry last failed request if autologin.enable is on.
   ✘     leetcode.cn        2018.11.25      Plugin to talk with leetcode-cn APIs.
   ✔     leetcode           default         Plugin to talk with leetcode APIs.
[ERROR] You are not login yet?
login: pass: - Signing in leetcode.com
[ERROR] invalid password?

Your Environment

• os: Windows 10 Family Edition x64 (#18362)
• extension settings: default
• nodejs version: 12.4.0
• vscode version: 1.40.1
• extension version: 0.15.7

[wuyifat]

Any step-by-step instructions to solve the problem temporily ? thanks!

Spent an hour and figured it out. Here are the step by step instructions by people newbie like me.

1. Make sure Node.js 8+ is installed. Instructions can be found on the official page

2. Install leetcode-cli from OS terminal or the terminal within vscode. Installation guide. Note the “From Github” section links to an older version.

# to remove the old version
npm uninstall -g leetcode-cli
# to install the up-to-date version(2.6.17+)
npm install -g leetcode-tools/leetcode-cli

Type leetcode version in terminal to make sure you installed version 2.6.17+.

1. Log into leetcode.com in a browser. In Chrome, right click and select “Inspect”. Switch to tab “Network”, “XHR”. Then click any button on leetcode.com(now should be on the left split screen). Now you should be able to see the cookie as @yihong0618 showed in the pic. Copy the entire cookie string starting from “__cfduid” and ending with “_gat=1”

2. Type leetcode user -c from terminal within vscode. Follow the prompt and type in your username and cookie you copied above.

[Bigbear325]

@jdneo @lostindark

1. I had tried to use puppeteer but using puppeteer will cause a rotbot check problem.
2. And the sencond way I also do my best to try but faild, and I happend to find that leetcode is beta their app, maybe we can try to get some luck

@jdneo

1. I have try to session login that user can copy the cookie from chrome(or others) then paste to the vscode input field, one time login then all the others features are not affected so the user can use vscode-leetcode as usual, can I compelete it and pull request for short-term solution ?

The demo will be like below (user can only copy the cookie and vscode-cli will parser it ):

This cookie but need to add some guide。

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It works for me, thanks! To be more clear, the cookie is the entire String marked in Red in the pic.

Then, In leetcode VS Code, Ctrl + Shift + P, choose, log in with cookie. Your Username, The copied Cookies. Enter!