Panniantong/Agent-Reach · error · SystemExit

[X] Could not find auth_token and ct0 in your input.

Error message

[X] Could not find auth_token and ct0 in your input.

What it means

For `agent-reach configure twitter-cookies`, the CLI parses the pasted value expecting either 'AUTH_TOKEN CT0' separated by whitespace or a Cookie-Editor Header String containing both auth_token and ct0 cookies. If neither token can be extracted, it prints this error with the accepted formats and exits 1.

Source

Thrown at agent_reach/cli.py:1515

                "  凭据未实时验证：不会执行 `twitter status`，因为上游在"
                "验证失败时会自动读取浏览器 Cookie。"
            )
            if not shutil.which("twitter"):
                print(
                    "  [!] twitter-cli 未安装。运行：pipx install twitter-cli"
                )
            else:
                print(
                    "  注意：独立 `twitter` 命令不会读取 Agent Reach 配置；"
                    "直接使用时需显式设置 TWITTER_AUTH_TOKEN/TWITTER_CT0。"
                )
        else:
            print("[X] Could not find auth_token and ct0 in your input.")
            print("   Run `agent-reach configure twitter-cookies` and paste either:")
            print("   1. AUTH_TOKEN and CT0 separated by whitespace")
            print("   2. A Cookie-Editor Header String")
            print("   For automation, pass the same value through --stdin.")
            raise SystemExit(1)

    elif args.key == "youtube-cookies":
        config.set("youtube_cookies_from", value)
        print(f"✅ YouTube cookie source configured: {value}")
        print("   yt-dlp will use cookies from this browser for age-restricted/member videos.")

    elif args.key == "xhs-cookies":
        if not _configure_xhs_cookies(value):
            raise SystemExit(1)

    elif args.key == "github-token":
        config.set("github_token", value)
        print("✅ GitHub token configured!")

    elif args.key == "groq-key":
        config.set("groq_api_key", value)
        print("✅ Groq key configured!")

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Solutions

  1. In the Cookie-Editor extension on x.com, choose Export → 'Header String' (not JSON) and re-run: agent-reach configure twitter-cookies --stdin
  2. Or paste exactly two whitespace-separated values: <auth_token> <ct0>
  3. Confirm you are actually logged in to x.com in that browser (both cookies exist) before exporting
  4. For automation, generate the 'auth_token=...; ct0=...' header string programmatically and pipe it via --stdin

Example fix

# before: JSON export (unsupported)
cat cookies.json | agent-reach configure twitter-cookies --stdin

# after: header-string export (supported)
# Cookie-Editor → Export → Header String, then:
agent-reach configure twitter-cookies --stdin <<< 'auth_token=ABC123; ct0=XYZ789'
Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

import re

def looks_like_twitter_cookies(value: str) -> bool:
    if re.search(r"auth_token=[^;\s]+", value) and re.search(r"\bct0=[^;\s]+", value):
        return True  # Cookie-Editor header string
    parts = value.split()
    return len(parts) == 2 and all(re.fullmatch(r"[A-Za-z0-9]{20,}", p) for p in parts)

assert looks_like_twitter_cookies(value), "need 'auth_token=..; ct0=..' header string or 'AUTH_TOKEN CT0' pair"

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: Pasting only one of the two tokens (auth_token without ct0), a Cookie-Editor export in JSON format instead of 'Header String' format, a header string from a different domain, or a value where the token names are misspelled. Automation hits it when piping a malformed string via --stdin.

Common situations: Users exporting cookies with the Cookie-Editor extension but clicking 'JSON' instead of 'Header String'; expired logged-out sessions where auth_token is absent; pasting from a note app that mangles separators; per CLAUDE.md, QR-scan logins for X are unsupported — only Cookie-Editor exports are.

Related errors

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