CLI Authentication
How to authenticate a command line application using Stack Auth
If you're building a command line application that runs in a terminal, you can use Stack Auth to let your users log in to their accounts.
To do so, we provide a Python template that you can use as a starting point. Download it here and copy it into your project, for example:
└─ my-python-app
├─ main.py
└─ stack_auth_cli_template.py # <- the file you just downloaded (rename to use underscores for Python import)Then, you can import the prompt_cli_login function:
from stack_auth_cli_template import prompt_cli_login
# prompt the user to log in
refresh_token = prompt_cli_login(
app_url="https://your-app-url.example.com",
project_id="your-project-id-here",
publishable_client_key="your-publishable-client-key-here",
)
if refresh_token is None:
print("User cancelled the login process. Exiting")
exit(1)
# you can also store the refresh token in a file, and only prompt the user to log in if the file doesn't exist
# you can now use the REST API with the refresh token
def stack_auth_request(method, endpoint, **kwargs):
# ... see Stack Auth's Getting Started section to see how this function should look like
# https://docs.stack-auth.com/python/getting-started/setup
def get_access_token(refresh_token):
access_token_response = stack_auth_request(
'post',
'/api/v1/auth/sessions/current/refresh',
headers={
'x-stack-refresh-token': refresh_token,
}
)
return access_token_response['access_token']
def get_user_object(access_token):
return stack_auth_request(
'get',
'/api/v1/users/me',
headers={
'x-stack-access-token': access_token,
}
)
user = get_user_object(get_access_token(refresh_token))
print("The user is logged in as", user['display_name'] or user['primary_email'])