OTP (sms) login?

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does anyone know how to automate OTP (sms) login?

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@istle_z If you really don’t have the option to have a proper test environment with an option to turn it off, then SMS Gateway API would be a way to go.

SMS Gateway API allows you to send and receive SMS messages using API calls by interacting with the SMS gateway of a service provider. You can use these APIs for testing within your test code to ensure that your SMS functionality works as expected.

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Thanks, I’ll give it a go

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It’s hard to suggest a specific one without knowing the project and automation requirements but ping me if you need any help. Maybe I’ll be able to give a hint or something :slight_smile:

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@istle_z can you tell us more about what you are doing? Give more background and context?

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I believe by far the easiest way is to use testRigor. Here’s the video: Tips & Tricks - Two Factor Authentication & SMS Testing - testRigor AI-Based Automated Testing Tool disclaimer: I’m a co-founder of testRigor

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I have found Twilio to be good enough for this.

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Thanks, I’ll give it a trial.

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Thank you, Artem, it’s my pleasure. I’ll give testRigor a trial.

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Twilio or a testing service like Mailinator are great. You can get an SMS phone number (supplied by Twilio) and Mailinator provides an API to get whatever data / messages are sent to it.

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Two ways:

  1. Use a service like MITM proxy to intercept the API call and grab the code from the call. This test would be fast and hermetic.
  2. Use a service like twilio.

I sometimes set up end to end tests that can run with both modes. I run 1 in CI very frequently. 2 I run much less frequently - it’s slower, costs money, etc. but is helpful if/when the OTP code changes and can detect bugs caused by the API changing.