ERR_CHALLENGE error ?

[cleesmith]

python 3.12.8
pip install -U https://github.com/mrgick/duckduckgo-chat-ai/archive/master.zip

I always see: ERR_CHALLENGE
... maybe from: duck_chat/duck_chat/api.py line 110: raise DuckChatException(err_message) but i don't see that error in the repo?

... or duck_chat, i see:

(duck_chat) cleesmith:~$ python -m duck_chat
Using claude-3-haiku-20240307
Type /help to display the help
>>> User input №1:
hello
>>> Response №1:
Error occurred: ERR_CHALLENGE
>>> User input №1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/duck_chat/lib/python3.12/site-packages/duck_chat/cli.py", line 67, in run
    user_input = self.get_user_input()
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/duck_chat/lib/python3.12/site-packages/duck_chat/cli.py", line 95, in get_user_input
    user_input = input()
                 ^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/duck_chat/lib/python3.12/asyncio/runners.py", line 157, in _on_sigint
    raise KeyboardInterrupt()
KeyboardInterrupt

... or using code example:

import asyncio
from duck_chat import DuckChat

async def main():
    async with DuckChat() as chat:
        print(await chat.ask_question("2+2?"))
        await asyncio.sleep(1)
        print(await chat.ask_question("6+6?"))

asyncio.run(main())

(duck_chat) cleesmith:~$ python -B cls.py

... i see:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/cleesmith/duck_chat/cls.py", line 10, in <module>
    asyncio.run(main())
  File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/duck_chat/lib/python3.12/asyncio/runners.py", line 194, in run
    return runner.run(main)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/duck_chat/lib/python3.12/asyncio/runners.py", line 118, in run
    return self._loop.run_until_complete(task)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/duck_chat/lib/python3.12/asyncio/base_events.py", line 686, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/cleesmith/duck_chat/cls.py", line 6, in main
    print(await chat.ask_question("2+2?"))
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/duck_chat/lib/python3.12/site-packages/duck_chat/api.py", line 121, in ask_question
    message = await self.get_answer()
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/opt/miniconda3/envs/duck_chat/lib/python3.12/site-packages/duck_chat/api.py", line 110, in get_answer
    raise DuckChatException(err_message)
duck_chat.exceptions.DuckChatException: ERR_CHALLENGE

[ReallyWeirdCat]

Same thing, apparently they resist automatic requests now

[HydraDragonAntivirus]

They probably fixed auto bot like requests. So, you failed captcha test.

[Legends-of-NGDB]

Any updates on this?

Here is my raw response:

{"action":"error","status":418,"type":"ERR_CHALLENGE","overrideCode":"b46b","cd":{"cc":"duckchat","e":0,"er":null,"gk":0,"i":"3","iadb":1,"o":"pTHF7sUYy4pHMYhsbUeoeppLNdGPzHhRBRU0wj56nm6MSgYA5Hjumqwvz1FDXEnK%0A","p":"eefbca2019c84d259e4855e7d3b94a85-6cc56ef6960946b7b63c0250878e085e-cbde47337b1642ffb87a097633bd95f5-680872170de9477d9fde180d3b6eabd7-189bb05e30d14d9fa5954255fec981f5-5985cbeac86a47e0a8986197ca42e027-2cf1c84b886c4c339792bd8029da27bc-68b1202301f9410fb071405447975abb-720d685b76ac4756a2055ac8fa9bfb46","q":"","r":"use","s":"aichat","sc":1}}

[Sabdot33]

Nope! i don't think so, because they said they would allow third party clients to access the thing.
Also, requesting like this works:

        async def create_custom_session():
            return aiohttp.ClientSession(
                headers={"User-Agent": "DuckChat Client",
                         "Connection": "keep-alive",
                         "Cookie": "yourcookies",
                         "x-vqd-4": "idk_what_this_is_for_its_probably_server_side_session_tracking"
                         },
                timeout=aiohttp.ClientTimeout(total=30)
            )

        custom_session = await create_custom_session()

        try:
            chat = DuckChat(session=custom_session)
            answer = await chat.ask_question(prompt)
            return answer
        finally:
            await custom_session.close()

but when i tried using a real browser-alike UA "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0" i would get the ERR_CHALLENGE again.
Also, i don't think that the cookies are necessary but i just included them.