Is it possible to use selenium webdriver to automatic authenticate in Microsoft Authenticator?

Rafael Facanha 21

Hello everyone!
I'm trying to automate a continuous process that uses a web tool with Microsoft Authenticator login (it generates a code that should be inserted on mobile phone app to allow login).
I'm using Selenium Webdriver on python to do all I need on this tool but I can't automate the login process.
The problem is that without automatic login the user must always interact with the process and the web browser could not be opened on background.
It will be better if all process could run on background without any interaction by user. But to do this, I need that the python code be capable to pass through this authentication.

Is it possible? Is there any way to do it?
Thanks a lot!
BR,
Rafael

Ren 1 Reputation point

2022-10-14T03:06:53.153+00:00

If you are able to manually sign in and save authentication for a time period example:"dont remind me for 60 days" to re-authenticate. Then you can simply use the browser Profile to open the session.

It's not perfect, but works for a period of time until user is forced to reauth. So exception handling would need to be added to detect re-auth request and end test

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To grab profile. Use Chrome//: version flag in session you want to use. Flag will output profile number.

Then add Options.AddArgument for two items
-Location of chrome "Userdata" on machine

-Options.AddArgument for profile number

Adding these arguments to browser open sequence will bypass auth all together

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Example in C#

ChromeOptions options = New ChromeOptions();
options.AddArgument("user-data-dir=C:\Users\~username~\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Userdata");

options.AddArgument("--profile.directory.Profile=10");

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