Order only succeeds when logged in once via browser

[coveritytest]

I do have some strange errors when ordering:

2022-03-09 18:37:57,586 CRITICAL MainThread      400
2022-03-09 18:37:57,586 CRITICAL MainThread      {"errors":[{"text":"order.error.128"}]}

2022-03-14 11:42:02,077 CRITICAL MainThread      500
2022-03-14 11:42:02,077 CRITICAL MainThread      {"errors":[{"text":"Internal server error"}]}

Unfortunately there is no more debug output despite I set

level=logging.DEBUG

I just found out that at least the

{"errors":[{"text":"Internal server error"}]}

error is gone, when I login to degiro once via browser. I guess this is a bug. The session is created correctly:

2022-03-14 12:08:17,645 INFO MainThread get_session_id:response_dict: {'isPassCodeEnabled': True, 'locale': 'de_DE', 'redirectUrl': 'https://trader.degiro.nl/trader/', 'sessionId': 'xxxxxxxxx.prod_a_116_4', 'status': 0, 'statusText': 'success'}

Might always happen after a weekend, when I did not login for a long time, but not sure. No, happened this morning again. Always have to login first, until buy order is executed.

[coveritytest]

This can be reproduced regularly on my account, does nobody else have this problem?

[TommasoBendinelli]

I also have the same issue. Any solution?

[TommasoBendinelli]

Could it be that you need to "sleep" in between two calls to the api enough time?

[TommasoBendinelli]

I have it also this morning

[coveritytest]

I wait between buy orders for 5 seconds, but it might be necessary to wait between every API call, will try this. The {"errors":[{"text":"order.error.128"}]} error happens not so often and cannot be reproduced on my site.

[funnel20]

@coveritytest I'm glad you brought this up, since I have the same experience.
It's certainly not related to a timeout issue between consecutive API calls, see my remark in this post.

Work-around

1. Our script with the DeGiro Connector (API) runs dedicated on laptop 1.
2. We start it 1.5 hours before New York Market opening and let it run for 9 hours in total
3. Together with the start of the script, we login to DeGiro web portal on laptop 2.
4. After a random amount of time, the web portal on laptop 2 is logged out automatically.
5. Orders created with the API on laptop 1 will be executed without issues.

When we omit step 3, step 5 will fail with errors.

Observations

• Since we use 2 different laptops, nothing can be set on the local machine. So DeGiro must link something to the account.
• Since the API error is introduced after time (i.e. when not logged in to the web portal for 1 day) it seems to relate to something as an OAuth expiration.
• Apparently the login to the web portal does something else to the DeGiro account server, than the API connect() method. @Chavithra Do you have any idea what this difference might be?

[TommasoBendinelli]

I agree that the login process for the web portal is different from DeGiro's API connect() method.
I have noticed that if you log in via the browser or your phone, no errors pop up until midnight of the next day .
So right now I am logging in into Degiro every morning as workaround, so that I am sure my daily orders will go through. But it isn't very pleasant experience, and goes against principle of having automated API where everything supposed to be automated without user intervention.

[TommasoBendinelli]

I can also support and try to find the bug if @Chavithra you can point me out where do you think this is coming from

[Henriquem-pt]

I have the same issue as well..

[pereira1408]

Same issue here.
Following for a solution!

[TommasoBendinelli]

Any news about this?

[Chavithra]

Nice analysis.

Will try to reproduce it this month.

Questions :

1. Which action fail exactly (create, update, delete order) ?
2. What is the duration of these orders ?
3. Did you try to force connect() everyday ?

[funnel20]

Nice analysis.

Will try to reproduce it this month.

Questions :

1. Which action fail exactly (create, update, delete order) ?
2. What is the duration of these orders ?
3. Did you try to force connect() everyday ?

1. When we create the first order of the day, check_order() throws TimeoutError exception. Our script handles this by a connect() and upon success retries the check_order(). This will return None.
2. It's a day order with some variables:

order = Order(
    action = Order.Action.BUY,
    order_type = Order.OrderType.LIMIT,
    price = price,
    product_id = product_id,
    size = amount,
    time_type = Order.TimeType.GOOD_TILL_DAY
)

3. Yes, see answer 1.

I hope this helps for your analysis.

[pereira1408]

I agree with @funnel20.

If I do not perform a login via browser besides degiro connector once a day, sell and buy orders fail. It's difficult to say those are the only actions failing because I only need to delete an order if it exists.
And yes, I've tried to force reconnection. Indeed, I even implemented a connection step before creating a buy/sell order. Even with this "workaround", it still fails.

I was thinking about the issue and, a dirty solution to temporarily mitigate the problem would be the implementation of a browser login with chrome driver working in parallel to connect() function. It's far from ideal, but It can work (desperate times call for desperate measures)

Good day for you guys :)

[Henriquem-pt]

Did someone manage to solve this without having to manually log in ?

[nine1zero]

Never had the issue actually, using 2fa auth and running the script from a Google cloud function

[fmcruz]

Hey, I have the same issue. Any solution/fix?

[nobodyguy]

Same issue here