InvalidPassword

[cRestalious]

Hello,

After running the steam-hour-farmer I keep getting that the password is wrong, I have double checked it and the password is corrent, what could be the issue?

[tacheometry]

Can you send over the .env file you have (with the password, etc, censored, but keep the formatting) and the logs you got?

[cRestalious]

I see no logs at the moment

[tacheometry]

I see no logs at the moment

There shouldn't be any , after each line, try removing them and see if it's working

[tacheometry]

Oh no... it's like that in the documentation... I will fix it, thank you very much for reporting this👍

[cRestalious]

Still getting the same issue, after removing these :/

[tacheometry]

Does your password have any special characters, different than a-Z 0-9, etc?

Also can you try removing the quotes and see if it works?

Also try to remove the SteamData folder each time you do a trial

[tacheometry]

I'll also update the package soon with an updated Steam library, maybe that fixes it...

[cRestalious]

Yeah it does. It has !@#$%^&*() characters

[tacheometry]

Hmm... maybe it's because of the way the env library handles it, see here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv#what-rules-does-the-parsing-engine-follow

Does it have spaces at the end? I don't know of other rules that'd affect this

[cRestalious]

No spaces at the end, its weird. Maybe I have to try with a different password? But still doesn't make sense.

[tacheometry]

No " \ or ' characters either?

[cRestalious]

In the password no

[tacheometry]

Ok, let's determine if this is actually caused by the password getting parsed incorrectly from the file or not...

1. In your farmer directory, run npm i steam-hour-farmer
2. Edit the file ./node_modules/steam-hour-farmer/index.js
3. Right under the line

   require("dotenv").config();

   Insert the following so it looks like this:

   require("dotenv").config();
   console.log(`PASSWORD: [${process.env.PASSWORD}]`);

4. Run the process using npx steam-hour-farmer (if you don't use npx it will use the global install which doesn't have modifications)
5. Check if the text between the brackets matches your password EXACTLY

If it does match, then that's not the issue, and we can try with an updated library for login...

[cRestalious]

It does match, yes

[cRestalious]

Any updates?

[tacheometry]

Alright, I've investigated quite a bit... turns out it's not related to the password itself, at all... Steam also sends out the InvalidPassword error (error code 5) in the cases when the access token is invalid. I don't think one is being sent right now - not sure. But here's what I've observed

• It works on my main account that uses Steam Guard (SteamDesktopAuthenticator in this case). Even when I delete the SteamData directory.
• It doesn't work on my alt account that only has email based verification (I'm not sure, but this may be on by default), giving me the dreaded InvalidPassword error.

Currently, the CLI doesn't ask for any code received from the email (and an email isn't even being sent, because this verification isn't being requested). But running this script here as a test, this does ask for the email code. Afterwards, the outputted access token can be used for account login.

Interestingly, when I made this project, logging in was less rigorous, and I was also testing on my alt account that only had email verification. 1 month later, that changed, apparently! But I've been running steam-hour-farmer without issue, non-stop, since then. It's been almost two years...

To use steam-hour-farmer right now, you should be fine with setting up Steam Guard (I recommend SteamDesktopAuthenticator and setting SHARED_SECRET so it can re-log-in by itself without any manual intervention) and running it that way. Otherwise you can try using it again after I update it to support this method as well.

Thank you for reporting the initial issue and the sustained replies 😉

[cRestalious]

Hm, thanks for the reply, I'm using Steam Guard but on mobile, could be that be the issue?

[tacheometry]

Shouldn't be the issue. But, are you on Windows?

[cRestalious]

Yes

[tacheometry]

Ok... now try it with the updated version. npm i -g steam-hour-farmer@latest should work. But delete everything in your folder other than the .env, and run normally.

You will also need to change USERNAME to ACCOUNT_NAME

Tell me if it works

[cRestalious]

Yep it worked. Thank you so much.

[tacheometry]

👍👍👍

On Windows, the USERNAME env variable is actually the Windows account name... so for me it was trying to log in with DevAccount (my account name) for example... I was so surprised when I found that out...

[tacheometry]

I didn't catch this initially because I made the project when I was maining Linux... disregard my other theories haha

[cRestalious]

That's interesting... Glad that it's solved now. thank you :D