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How to fix poetry publish HTTP Error 403: Invalid or non-existent authentication information

Problem:

You intend to publish your package on PyPI using poetry using a command such as

poetry publish

However, you see the following error message:

Publishing mypackage (0.1.0) to PyPI
 - Uploading mypackage-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl FAILED

HTTP Error 403: Invalid or non-existent authentication information. See https://pypi.org/help/#invalid-auth for more information. | b'<html>\n <head>\n  <title>403 Invalid or non-existent authentication information. See https://pypi.org/help/#invalid-auth for more information.\n \n <body>\n  <h1>403 Invalid or non-existent authentication information. See https://pypi.org/help/#invalid-auth for more information.\n  Access was denied to this resource.<br/><br/>\nInvalid or non-existent authentication information. See https://pypi.org/help/#invalid-auth for more information.\n\n\n \n'

Solution

First, you need to create a PyPI API token if you don’t have one already. The username/password authentication is deprecated.

Now run the following command to configure poetry:

poetry config http-basic.pypi __token__ APITOKEN

where APITOKEN is the API token you want to use on this computer. Leave __token__ as-is since it’s a special username that tells PyPI to use an API token instead of the old & deprecated username/password authentication

It should look like this:

poetry config http-basic.pypi __token__ pypi-AgEIc[...]

Now retry publishing:

poetry publish

Example output:

Publishing mypackage (0.1.0) to PyPI
 - Uploading mypackage-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl 100%
 - Uploading mypackage-0.1.0.tar.gz 100%