zapier login fails to authenticate Google login credentials

[akflaherty]

If a user account was created by signing in to Google, then entering that email address and password will not work with zapier login.
The following error is returned:

Error! "https://zapier.com/api/platform/cli/keys" returned "401" saying "Could not authenticate you."

What would you like to change?

Add a command line argument to zapier login, to generate the zapierrc file for Google accounts

Your Environment

• CLI Version (zapier -v): 7.6.1
• Operating System: Windows 10
• Node.js Version: 8.11.4

I was able to successfully log in with an account generated directly through Zapier with a username and password.

[eliangcs]

@akflaherty when you signed up Zapier with your Google account, we generated a random password for your Zapier account. You and we can never retrieve that random password, so you need to reset it from https://zapier.com/app/login/forgot and use that password in zapier login. Let us know if it still doesn't work.

[xavdid]

That is to say, this is working as intended (albeit unclear). Accounts created purely through google have no password. To use the CLI, you need to create a password via a password reset (as mentioned above) and then you'll be able to log in.

We should definitely document this more clearly though!

[jbaranski]

I ran into the same problem. It's not clear until reading this.

[xavdid]

Sorry about that! We've got work scheduled to resolve this in the next version. Thanks for your patience!

[xavdid]

8.1.0 gives a warning about this and #420 (unreleased, but coming soon-ish) has similar messaging (and an eventual workaround). Going to go ahead and close.

Thanks for the report!