Getting error as 'Need Browser' while sign in to google play.

[sayalijoshi]

Hi Akdeniz,

I am getting issue while trying to sign in into google account. I have automated script to download the apk files from Google Play store. The script was running fine till last week. But, recently getting error as Need Browser. Bellow is the error -

Exception in thread "main" com.akdeniz.googleplaycrawler.GooglePlayException: Error=NeedsBrowser
Url=https://accounts.google.com/ContinueSignIn?sarp=1&scc=1&continue=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.google.com%2Fo%2Fandroid%2Fauth%3Fhl%3Den_us%26xoauth_display_name%3DAndroid%2BLogin%2BService%26source%3DAndroid%2BLogin&plt=AKgnsbvpYOFQNYD02v2gawgW73Qa_H9ymB1OhI6mqifo1tfMndMaVWA6wyfuVSN94w4003Kc6lz9gJ51fjnAY97fXoMvEHTlV0AqVIwRpHNwcNMS50dFsO7e7dveFv-8HhJRvfDHHruJy7MJH-Gq808p3U_LANxN0g0irHHDcf3o4TjFQC1GHpg2abYrIkPYuea4qVhzHgN2gI7tduYeFF7VTSLhQ-SQIHWLmgMhnfrTGMBsgWUPN7w
ErrorDetail=To access your account, you must sign in on the web. Touch Next to start browser sign-in.
at com.akdeniz.googleplaycrawler.GooglePlayAPI.executeHttpRequest(GooglePlayAPI.java:522)
at com.akdeniz.googleplaycrawler.GooglePlayAPI.executePost(GooglePlayAPI.java:482)
at com.akdeniz.googleplaycrawler.GooglePlayAPI.executePost(GooglePlayAPI.java:462)
at com.akdeniz.googleplaycrawler.GooglePlayAPI.loginAC2DM(GooglePlayAPI.java:180)
at com.akdeniz.googleplaycrawler.GooglePlayAPI.checkin(GooglePlayAPI.java:160)
at com.info.playservice.GooglePlayService.createService(GooglePlayService.scala:49)
at com.info.playservice.GooglePlayService.loginToPlayService(GooglePlayService.scala:79)
at com.info.playservice.GooglePlayService.(GooglePlayService.scala:36)
at com.info.boot.free.BootFreeApps$delayedInit$body.apply(BootFreeAppsSelenium.scala:24)
at scala.Function0$class.apply$mcV$sp(Function0.scala:40)
at scala.runtime.AbstractFunction0.apply$mcV$sp(AbstractFunction0.scala:12)
at scala.App$$anonfun$main$1.apply(App.scala:71)
at scala.App$$anonfun$main$1.apply(App.scala:71)
at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:318)
at scala.collection.generic.TraversableForwarder$class.foreach(TraversableForwarder.scala:32)
at scala.App$class.main(App.scala:71)
at com.info.boot.free.BootFreeApps$.main(BootFreeAppsSelenium.scala:20)
at com.info.boot.free.BootFreeApps.main(BootFreeAppsSelenium.scala)

Currently, I am using googleplaycrawler-0.3.jar to download apk files from play store. Can you please help me to resolve this issue.

Thanks,
Sayali

[atiqsayyed]

Hi Sayali,

The problem would be of google security.. You may want to check the security policy of your account.
Please check this out https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/meKwKfxEk5g

[sayalijoshi]

Thanks Atiq.
That was a google account security issue.

[Jiezhi]

I solved this problem by check this: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/DisplayUnlockCaptcha