twine: 403 Client Error: Invalid or non-existent authentication information.

Your Environment

Your operating system: Ubuntu 18.10
Version of python you are running:

Python 2.7.15+

How did you install twine? Did you use your operating system’s package manager or pip or something else?

I followed instructions at https://pypi.org/project/twine/

pip install twine

Then when I tried to run it, I was instructed to run:

sudo apt install twine

Version of twine you have installed (include complete output of):

twine version 1.11.0 (pkginfo: 1.4.2, requests: 2.18.4, setuptools: 40.2.0,
requests-toolbelt: 0.8.0, tqdm: 4.23.4)

Which package repository are you targeting?

I don’t know what this means.

$ cat darip.egg-info/PKG-INFO 
Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: darip
Version: 1.0.0
Summary: Bulk downloads images from Deviant Art
Home-page: https://github.com/kstenerud/darip/
Author: Karl Stenerud
Author-email: kstenerud@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: UNKNOWN
Platform: UNKNOWN
$ cat ~/.pypirc 
cat: /home/karl/.pypirc: No such file or directory

The Issue

I get an HTTP error following the instructions at https://pypi.org/project/twine/

Steps to Reproduce

If the issue is predictable and consistently reproducible, please list the steps here.

$ twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*
Uploading distributions to https://test.pypi.org/legacy/
Enter your username: kstenerud
Enter your password: 
Uploading darip-1.0.0-py2-none-any.whl
100%|██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 8.02k/8.02k [00:00<00:00, 9.58kB/s]
HTTPError: 403 Client Error: Invalid or non-existent authentication information. for url: https://test.pypi.org/legacy/

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 18 (5 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Instead of twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*

write twine upload --repository-url https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*

I was also having same problem but by typing commands this way, my problem got solved.

+76

Kamleshgupta1 on Apr 26, 2019

@Foxgeek36 and @Kamleshgupta1:

The correct solution when --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ fails due to Invalid or non-existent authentication information is to create an account on https://test.pypi.org/, which is “a separate instance of the Python Package Index that allows you to try distribution tools and processes without affecting the real index.”

Using --repository-url https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ will upload your package to https://pypi.org/, which publishes it “for real”.

+30

bhrutledge on Oct 20, 2019

Instead of twine upload --repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*

write twine upload --repository-url https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*

I was also having same problem but by typing commands this way, my problem got solved.

the perfect solution

+15

Foxgeek36 on Oct 18, 2019

hi, when we enter the password, the password is definitely not wrong and I think it’s a bug. so I try to use -u for the username and -p for the password directly without using the fields provided by the console (default). I try to run this in the command: twine upload -u YOUR-USERNAME -p YOUR-PASSWORD - repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist / * Capture_distribute_packages_upload_2 it really works for me. thanks:)

+13

adamcanray on Nov 5, 2019

https://test.pypi.org/user/kstenerud/ does not exist. You have to create your login there first.

The error message could be improved by PyPI but is not in the domain of Twine in my opinion.

+10

sigmavirus24 on Nov 7, 2018

C:\python with ai\pykh>twine upload -u salah100 -p khizerkamranpp - repository-url https://test.pypi.org/legacy/ dist / * InvalidDistribution: Cannot find file (or expand pattern): ‘-’

khizerkamran on Aug 27, 2021

Having verified accounts in PyPI and TestPyPI, contents for ~/.pypi:

[distutils]
index-servers=
    pypi
    testpypi

[pypi]
repository: https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
username: ***
password: ***

[testpypi]
repository: https://test.pypi.org/legacy/
username: ***
password: ***

After building the package, publishing for TestPyPI:

twine upload --repository testpypi dist/*

Publishing for PyPI:

twine upload --repository pypi dist/*

diogobaltazar on Apr 12, 2021

Thanks @vsay01 and @adamcanray this worked!

twine upload -u 'USERNAME' -p 'PASSWORD' --repository-url https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*

Here are my other config options

.pypirc

[distutils]
  index-servers =
    pypi

[pypi]
  repository: https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
  username: reubano
  password:

.localrc

export TWINE_USERNAME=reubano

reubano on Dec 3, 2019

twine upload dist/*
twine upload --repository-url https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/*
twine upload --repository-url https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/ dist/* --password password

reubano on Nov 8, 2019