This code demonstrates the automatic process of generating access token for kiteconnect using headless firefox browser

automatic-login-kiteconnect-selenium.py

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# Author : Arun B
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# Purpose : Automate the process of generating access token for kiteconnect in python
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# For this code to run you have to download geckodriver and put it in /usr/local/bin
from kiteconnect import KiteConnect,KiteTicker
import requests
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import re
import json
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.options import Options
import time
import os

############### Fill in the details of the following section###
kite_api_key = " " #user api_key
kite_api_secret = " " # user api_secret
userid   = " " #ZErodha userid
passcode = " " #Zerodha password
zpin     = " " #Zerodha pin
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url = "https://kite.trade/connect/login?v=3&api_key="+kite_api_key

file = kite_api_key+'.json'
if os.path.isfile(file):
	print(file+" present in pwd")
	with open(file, 'r') as f:
		data = json.load(f)
	print("Previous login time for "+data["user_name"]+" is "+str(data["login_time"]))
	os.remove(file)
	print(file+" has been deleted.")
else:
	print(file+" does not exist in pwd")

options = Options()
options.headless = True	
wd = webdriver.Firefox(options=options)
wd.get(url)
try: 
	reply = wd.current_url
	print(reply)
	user_id = "/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/form/div[1]/input"
	password = "/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/form/div[2]/input"
	login_button = "/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/form/div[4]/button"
	pin = "/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/form/div[2]/div/input"
	pin_button = "/html/body/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[1]/div/div/div[2]/form/div[3]/button"
	element = element = WebDriverWait(wd, 10).until(
		EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, user_id)))
	
	wd.find_element_by_xpath(user_id).send_keys(userid)
	print("Entered USerID")
	wd.find_element_by_xpath(password).send_keys(passcode)
	print("Entered Password")
	wd.find_element_by_xpath(login_button).click()
	time.sleep(2)
	element = element = WebDriverWait(wd, 10).until(
		EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH, pin)))
	wd.find_element_by_xpath(pin).send_keys(zpin)
	print("Entered PIN")
	time.sleep(2)
	wd.find_element_by_xpath(pin_button).click()
except Exception as e:
	print (e)
time.sleep(5)
reply = wd.current_url
status =  re.findall(r'status=(.*)',reply)
print(reply)
if status[0]=="success":
	request_token = re.findall(r'request_token=(.*)&action',reply)[0]
	kite = KiteConnect(api_key=kite_api_key,disable_ssl=True)
	data = kite.generate_session(request_token, api_secret=kite_api_secret)
	user_data = json.dumps(data, indent=4, sort_keys=True,default=str)
	print(data["user_name"],data["login_time"],data["access_token"])
	with open(file, "w") as outfile:
		outfile.write(user_data)
	time.sleep(5)
	print("Automatic login for "+data["user_name"]+" is done. "+file+" has been written to disk")

Hello, thanks for this helpful post. I was able to login successfully using above code. But how can I create kiteconnect ( https://github.com/zerodha/pykiteconnect) object and using it as API trading ?