"This browser or app may not be secure.." Error message

Hello all!

Please excuse my naivety this is something I'm fairly new to and a skill i'm trying to develop. I've followed a tutorial to build a function that counts the amount of words on the page of urls within a Gsheet.

But, I'm repeatedly running into an issue in which Tidyverse is unable to authenticate and i'm receiving this message: "This browser or app may not be secure.
Try using a different browser. If you’re already using a supported browser, you can try again to sign in.".

I've done some research and some the historical fixes eluded to disabling 2-step verification or enabling less safe apps, which as far as I can see is no longer a function. So i'm pretty stumped, if anyone has discovered the solution i'd greatly appreciated any pointers towards where I can find a solution (or attempt to at least!):

Packages

library(tidyverse)
library(googlesheets4)
library(rvest)
library(httpuv)

Retrieve data from Google sheet

sheet_URL = 'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C7UtgiywvNgzx6Z-rmluFvej4TTHdFoX9peDLIK34nY/edit#gid=0'
sheet_id = gs4_get(sheet_URL)
page_data = range_read(sheet_id)

Retrieve English dictionary

dict = read.table(file = url("https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/raw/master/words_alpha.txt"), col.names = "words") %>%
as_tibble() %>%
mutate(condition = TRUE)

Read data from web pages and count words per page

words_per_page = page_data %>%
mutate(words = map(Page, ~return_words(web_page = .x))) %>%
mutate(words = words %>% unlist())

Output data to Google sheets

sheet_write(words_per_page, sheet = 'output', ss = sheet_id)

Functions

return_words = function(web_page){
words = web_page %>%
read_html() %>%
html_text() %>%

   # clean words for table
   tolower() %>%
   str_remove_all(pattern = '"') %>%
   str_remove_all(pattern = ",|:|\\.|\\\n") %>%
   strsplit(' ') %>%
   as_tibble('words') %>%
   set_names("words") %>%

   # join with English dictionary
   left_join(dict) %>%

   # keep only words from the english dictionary
   filter(condition == TRUE) %>%
   pull(condition) %>%
   sum()

return(words)
}

Error image

Thank you!

Hi All,

I realised that I needed to add gs4_deauth() & also change the admin settings on the google sheet, I'm still having issues with my code but this particular issue is sorted.

Thank you!

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