Authentication failed because China mainland account migated to icloud.com.cn instead of icloud.com(with solution)

[QiangGeCode]

Hi,

Suddenly, this great tool stop working since 18/Nov, I didn't touch anything on the server running it. I didn't change my icloud password as well!

I installed it in Ubuntu, with Python 3.8.10. Anyone can help me? I really love this tool.

Error message are:

2021-11-20 15:02:31 DEBUG    Authenticating...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/icloudpd", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/icloudpd/base.py", line 255, in main
    icloud = authenticate(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/icloudpd/authentication.py", line 29, in authenticate
    icloud = pyicloud_ipd.PyiCloudService(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pyicloud_ipd/base.py", line 193, in __init__
    self.authenticate()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/pyicloud_ipd/base.py", line 219, in authenticate
    self.params.update({'dsid': resp['dsInfo']['dsid']})
KeyError: 'dsInfo'

[menkej]

Hi!
It seems like your authentication token expired. Can you please check again and post the exact command (leaving out your password of course!) you're running?

Thanks
Jörg

[QiangGeCode]

Hi Jorg,

Thanks for comment!

The token has been expired once 2weeks ago, and I did the 2 steps authentication, then everything went fine before it stop working. Interesting thing is when I try another icloud account, it did working!

my command is like below, and I run it both in sudo and normal user, show the same error message.

/usr/local/bin/icloudpd -d /mnt/nas --username=x@y.com --password=***** --recent 50 --auto-delete

[QiangGeCode]

I just installed a new ubuntu, brand new one, version is 20.04.3. Exactly same error when first time run it. Anybody can help?

[QiangGeCode]

is it because of I'm in China, so the icloud server DNS name is icloud.com.cn instead of icloud.com? would this possible be the reason of failure?

I have two accounts A and B, A is region China and B is region HK. I was using A for sync but now is not working, and I tried B on same server, it works well. But A was working well before 18/Nov.

[QiangGeCode]

I might figure out the root cause, but no idea how to solve it.

Oringally, I set 2h interval for downloading. 16/Nov, I changed setting the crontab for every 1h to download the photo, which might cause too frequent access to icloud.

Then I just read a statement in icloudpd docker page:

Be careful if setting a short synchronisation period. Apple have a tendency to throttle connections that are hitting their server too often.

I guess, I set the interval too short, author recommend for 24h. Apple throttle my connections.

who knows how to solve the problem?

Currently, I disabled the crontab schedule downloading tasks, hope it will cooling down and re-enable the authentication.

[Alano-i]

I might figure out the root cause, but no idea how to solve it.

Oringally, I set 2h interval for downloading. 16/Nov, I changed setting the crontab for every 1h to download the photo, which might cause too frequent access to icloud.

Then I just read a statement in icloudpd docker page:

Be careful if setting a short synchronisation period. Apple have a tendency to throttle connections that are hitting their server too often.

I guess, I set the interval too short, author recommend for 24h. Apple throttle my connections.

who knows how to solve the problem?

Currently, I disabled the crontab schedule downloading tasks, hope it will cooling down and re-enable the authentication.

你好，从19号早上6点多的计划任务开始也出现了相同的问题，我也有两个账号，和你一模一样，但我两个账号都是中国的，都设置6小时更新一次。目前A账号的计划任务完全正常可以正常同步，B账号就报和你一样的错误（AB两个账号当时都是同一天设置好的计划任务），可以判断应该就是账号的问题，或许正如你所说被限制了。我现在将B账号的计划任务停了，希望过几天能解除限制。如果找到解决办法大家可以同步一下，谢谢。

[QiangGeCode]

I might figure out the root cause, but no idea how to solve it.
Oringally, I set 2h interval for downloading. 16/Nov, I changed setting the crontab for every 1h to download the photo, which might cause too frequent access to icloud.
Then I just read a statement in icloudpd docker page:
Be careful if setting a short synchronisation period. Apple have a tendency to throttle connections that are hitting their server too often.
I guess, I set the interval too short, author recommend for 24h. Apple throttle my connections.
who knows how to solve the problem?
Currently, I disabled the crontab schedule downloading tasks, hope it will cooling down and re-enable the authentication.

你好，从19号早上6点多的计划任务开始也出现了相同的问题，我也有两个账号，和你一模一样，但我两个账号都是中国的，都设置6小时更新一次。目前A账号的计划任务完全正常可以正常同步，B账号就报和你一样的错误（AB两个账号当时都是同一天设置好的计划任务），可以判断应该就是账号的问题，或许正如你所说被限制了。我现在将B账号的计划任务停了，希望过几天能解除限制。如果找到解决办法大家可以同步一下，谢谢。

好的，希望能尽快解除，以后还是设置一天一次比较安全，就是不知道要过几天才会解除......

[i-Ethan]

Same error start at 20/Nov, The crontab interval is 24H.

[QiangGeCode]

Same error start at 20/Nov, The crontab interval is 24H.

Which region is your icloud account belong to?

[ShifengHuGit]

我也一样啊,.... 我还以为是我个人问题呢...手贱, 登陆了一下icloud的 web客户端后, 然后就再也不好用了.... 的确也出现 要 merge 到 icloud.com 到icloud.com.cn了 ,... 烦死了...咋回事啊...

[ShifengHuGit]

我就是点了 那个 到 icloud.com.cn 后 才出的问题. 深度怀疑 就是这个 auth 格式变了...

[QiangGeCode]

我就是点了 那个 到 icloud.com.cn 后 才出的问题. 深度怀疑 就是这个 auth 格式变了...

我不记得我出问题之前登陆过web的icloud，记不清楚了。。。。。。

这不知道哪位大神可以debug一下，帮忙看看哪里有问题，顺便解决一下

[i-Ethan]

Which region is your icloud account belong to?

中国大陆 😂

[QiangGeCode]

所以这个是中国大陆账户特有的问题了... ...