Login isses due to Degiro's bot detection

I have started experiencing a “Could not login” error, with the response from the server reading:

         <h2>Reference: CENSORED</h2>
         <h2>Remote IP: CENSORED</h2>
         <h2>Identifier: CENSORED=python_bot</h2>
         <h2>Date: 07/Dec/2022:11:42:43 +0100</h2>

[Jakub-CZ]

I plan to maintain my fork for the foreseeable future. But if Degiro change their API so much that it’d take too much effort to adapt to the change, I’ll probably switch to another alternative at that point.

[petrklus]

@Jakub-CZ I managed to work around the issue by setting user-agent headers:

headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'}

This is my complete __request method hotfix:

    @staticmethod
    def __request(url, cookie=None, payload=None, headers=None, data=None, post_params=None, request_type=__GET_REQUEST,
                  error_message='An error occurred.'):

        headers_def = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36'}
        if headers:
            headers = dict(list(headers_def.items()) + list(headers.items()))
        else:
            headers = headers_def

        if request_type == DeGiro.__DELETE_REQUEST:
            response = requests.delete(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
        elif request_type == DeGiro.__GET_REQUEST and cookie:
            response = requests.get(url, cookies=cookie, headers=headers)
        elif request_type == DeGiro.__GET_REQUEST:
            response = requests.get(url, params=payload, headers=headers)
        elif request_type == DeGiro.__POST_REQUEST and headers and data:
            response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, params=payload, data=data)
        elif request_type == DeGiro.__POST_REQUEST and post_params:
            response = requests.post(url, params=post_params, json=payload, headers=headers)
        elif request_type == DeGiro.__POST_REQUEST:
            response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
        else:
            raise Exception(f'Unknown request type: {request_type}')

        if response.status_code == 200 or response.status_code == 201:
            try:
                return response.json()
            except:
                return "No data"
        else:
            raise Exception(f'{error_message} Response: {response.text}')