Auth token not updating with magister

[EttoreRaimondi]

Hey!

Me again, so I see that the auth code is no longer in sync with magister js site? The site seems to update to a new auth code every few hours? Any idea where we can pull the updated auth code from to access the login challenge?

[robbertkl]

I've noticed the same and have created this PhantomJS script to fetch the auth code, which is what I'm using now:

var system = require('system');
var webpage = require('webpage');

if (system.args.length < 2) {
  console.log('Usage: phantomjs fetch.js school_url');
  phantom.exit(1);
}

var url = system.args[1];
var page = webpage.create();

page.onResourceRequested = function(request) {
  if (request.method == 'POST' && request.url == 'https://accounts.magister.net/challenges/current') {
    var json = JSON.parse(request.postData);
    console.log(json.authCode);
    phantom.exit(0);
  }
};

page.open(url, function() {
  setTimeout(function() {
    phantom.exit(1);
  }, 5000);
});

I'm able to automate uploading this auth code, so perhaps I can create an alternative to this repo and have a gist with the auth code that can be fetched dynamically, similar to magisterjs-dynamic-authcode.

[EttoreRaimondi]

Awesome! Had a similar idea. Would be awesome if you made the new repo as this one is technically useless now. It seems that everytime magister update their site/api, the auth code changes. Could you please add it and then link it to this issue so other's can also find it.

[robbertkl]

See https://github.com/robbertkl/magister-authcode

I have an instance fetching it every 15 minutes (it hasn't changed for a few days) to https://gist.github.com/robbertkl/995a359d1c9641892e3de1ed9af18b15

After a while we can see in the gist's revisions how often the auth code changes but I agree with you in that it's probably updated on every server update.

You can use the npm package magister-authcode as a drop-in replacement for @magisterjs/dynamic-authcode or fetch the JSON manually from this url.