How to automate totp with password?

Question

I'm facing the following scenario: I've got an authenticator app in which I have to insert a pin to unlock the totp that I need to use in order to perform login. I've got the authenticator URI in this format:

otpauth://totp/MY_SYSTEM:MY_USER?&secret=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&algorithm=SHA1&digits=6&counter=0`

I tried to automate this by using python with the following script:

import pyotp

totp=pyotp.parse_uri('otpauth://totp/MY_SYSTEM:MY_USER?secret=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&algorithm=SHA1&digits=6&counter=0')

print(totp.now())

But when I try to run it I obtain the following error:

 File "C:\Users\alorland\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\pyotp\__init__.py", line 94, in parse_uri
    return TOTP(secret, **otp_data)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: TOTP.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'initial_count'

So if I try to remove the &counter=0 parameter, it runs without any error but the totp returned doesn't match with the one shown in app. Is there anything that I am ignoring? What about the app pin for unlock the totp? is that one the missing step? Also solutions in other languages are welcome! thanks in advance

How to automate totp with password?

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