Better assist user when login failures (and workaround a parser bug)

README.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ Google Keep frontend for terminals.
 
 This is alpha quality code! Don't use in production. The project is under active development, so feel free to open an issue if you have questions, see any bugs or have a feature request. PRs are welcome too!
 
+This project is a client based on [gkeepapi](https://github.com/kiwiz/gkeepapi).
+
 Screen cast (WIP)
 -----------------
 
@@ -19,6 +21,19 @@ Running
 $ ./keep
 ```
 
+Features
+--------
+
+The CLI allows:
+
+- [x] Adding a note (basic)
+- [x] Searching a note (basic)
+- [x] Modifying an existent note (basic)
+
+The TUI allows:
+
+**TBC**
+
 Todo
 ----
 

keep

@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ set_parser.add_argument('--title', type=str, help='Set title of a note')
 set_parser.add_argument('--text', type=str, help='Set body of a note')
 set_parser.set_defaults(func=commands.set)
 
+add_parser = subparsers.add_parser('add', help='Add a new note')
+add_parser.add_argument('--title', type=str, help='The title of the note')
+add_parser.add_argument('--text', type=str, help='The body of the note')
+add_parser.set_defaults(func=commands.add)
+
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
 if not os.path.isdir(args.config_dir):
@@ -124,12 +129,20 @@ if not logged_in:
         token = keep.getMasterToken()
         keyring.set_password('google-keep-token', config['username'], token)
         logger.info('Success')
-    except gkeepapi.exception.LoginException:
-        logger.info('Login failed')
-
-if not logged_in:
-    logger.error('Failed to authenticate')
-    sys.exit(1)
-
-
-args.func(args, keep, config)
+    except gkeepapi.exception.LoginException as err:
+        logger.error('Login failed') 
+        logger.error('Ensure you have:')
+        logger.error('- entered correctly your password for the account: ' + config['username'])
+        logger.error('- allowed less secured apps at: https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps?pli=0 (*)')
+        logger.error('- unlocked the account via captcha: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/DisplayUnlockCaptcha (*)')
+        logger.error('')
+        logger.error('(*) where 0 is your Google account id, may be different if multiple logins, adapt it')
+        raise err
+
+
+
+try:
+    func = args.func
+except AttributeError:
+    parser.error("Invalid arguments!")
+func(args, keep, config)

keep_cli/commands.py

@@ -75,3 +75,7 @@ def set(args: argparse.Namespace, keep: gkeepapi.Keep, config: dict):
         note.text = args.text
 
     _sync(args, keep, config, True)
+
+def add(args: argparse.Namespace, keep: gkeepapi.Keep, config: dict):
+    keep.createNote(args.title, args.text)
+    _sync(args, keep, config, True)