Request fails without the __Secure-1PSIDTS cookie

[nerblock]

The value of __Secure-1PSIDTS (or __Secure-2PSIDTS, __Secure-3PSIDTS, etc, depending on the user number) must be included in the cookie. This is what the cookies variable should look like in order to make a successful request:

let cookies = `__Secure-1PSID=<COOKIE_VALUE>; __Secure-1PSIDTS=<COOKIE_VALUE>`;

When it is not included (as described in the current readme) the request fails with this error:

Error parsing response: make sure you are using the correct cookie, copy the value of "__Secure-1PSID" cookie and set it like this:

new Bard("__Secure-1PSID=<COOKIE_VALUE>")

Also using a US proxy is recommended.

If this error persists, please open an issue on github.
https://github.com/PawanOsman/GoogleBard
file:///C:/Users/user/Source/bard-test/node_modules/googlebard/dist/classes/bard.js:174
        return resData[3];
                      ^

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '3')
    at Bard.ask (file:///C:/Users/user/Source/bard-test/node_modules/googlebard/dist/classes/bard.js:174:23)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at async file:///C:/Users/user/Source/bard-test/index.js:8:16

[piccolo20]

I did include those cookies and it worked then after 20 minutes the request fails again. What do you think?

[piccolo20]

Those cookies always change per 10mins

[nerblock]

I guess they added this requirement to make programatically calliing the api more difficult.

[piccolo20]

Oh sorry about that. My fault keep refreshing my browser page and it generates new value. The code works well now.

[hugoroussel]

@nerblock thanks for creating this issue, by adding __Secure-1PSIDTS=<COOKIE_VALUE> I was able to make it work. However, I did not try to use __Secure-2PSIDTS or __Secure-3PSIDTS. Any way to generate those cookies programmatically?

[nerblock]

You can use browser_cookie3.
Also check out this issue: dsdanielpark/Bard-API#99

[piccolo20]

@nerblock thanks for creating this issue, by adding __Secure-1PSIDTS=<COOKIE_VALUE> I was able to make it work. However, I did not try to use __Secure-2PSIDTS or __Secure-3PSIDTS. Any way to generate those cookies programmatically?

You can get them if you get the success response. The response has Set-Cookie:

[sturmenta]

@nerblock Did you find a way to get the __Secure-1PSIDTS cookie programmatically?

[Hecker5556]

year too late but I'm experiencing something similar on youtube.
To refresh that cookie on youtube, you need to make an authenticated request to:
https://accounts.youtube.com/RotateCookiesPage?origin=https://www.youtube.com&yt_pid=1
you need to have most recent __Secure-1PSIDTS cookie when making a request to it
in there use regex to fetch the data string, which is in:
init('-5270579600125631160', 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 600.0)
so youre getting the '-5270579600125631160'
example regex:

\(\'(\d+)\',

after that, you make an authenticated POST request to
https://accounts.youtube.com/RotateCookies
with json data being
[
None,
'-5270579600125631160',
1,
]
you should get status code 200, and you can directly access it from response.cookies.get("__Secure-1PSIDTS") (assuming you did response = requests.post)
in the case that youre using aiohttp, doing

async with session.post(...) as r:
    psid = r.headers.get("Set-Cookie")

the string from the first request should last a day, but I got no clue how to get it.
for this i'm pretty sure account.google.com should work instead of youtube