avios-cli

A CLI and TUI for avios.com — check your Avios balance, browse your transactions and manage your account without leaving the terminal.

⚠️ Unofficial. This project is not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by Avios, British Airways or IAG Loyalty. It drives the same private endpoints the avios.com website uses, with your own logged-in session. Use at your own risk; it may break at any time and may be against the provider's terms of service.

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Status

Early alpha, built in the open. See the roadmap.

Install

Requires Python 3.10+.

uvx avios-cli --help     # run without installing
# or install it, then use the `avios` command:
pip install avios-cli
avios --help

Or from source, for development:

git clone https://github.com/alexechoi/avios-cli
cd avios-cli
uv sync
uv run avios --help

Log in

avios.com has no credential API — login is Auth0 Universal Login behind hCaptcha and SMS/passkey MFA — so avios login opens a real browser, waits while you finish logging in (password, captcha, SMS code), and captures the session once you land on the dashboard. It needs the login extra:

uvx --from 'avios-cli[login]' avios login

It launches your installed Google Chrome (no extra download). If you don't have Chrome, install Playwright's browser once with uvx --from playwright playwright install chromium.

Prefer not to open a browser? Import the cookie from a Chrome you're already logged into avios.com with:

uvx --from 'avios-cli[login]' avios login --from-browser

This scans all your Chrome profiles and uses whichever one is actually logged into avios.com (it tells you which). If you have several profiles, you can target one directly:

uvx --from 'avios-cli[login]' avios login --from-browser --profile "Profile 1"

Plain uvx avios-cli login won't work — the isolated environment doesn't include the login extra.

Stuck in an endless captcha loop? That's bot detection on the automated browser. Use --from-browser instead: log into avios.com in your normal Chrome (you'll get one normal captcha), then run uvx --from 'avios-cli[login]' avios login --from-browser.

Your session cookie is stored at ~/.config/avios/state.json (mode 600). It expires after ~a day; just run avios login again. Run avios logout to remove it.

Usage

avios balance                  # total / individual / household Avios
avios transactions --limit 20  # recent transactions (date, description, Avios, type)
avios pending                  # pending Avios
avios overview                 # dashboard summary
avios whoami                   # name, tier, membership, email
avios raw /shell/api/users/current/accounts   # hit any endpoint directly

Add --json to balance, transactions, pending or whoami for scriptable output. Non-BA Avios programmes can set AVIOS_OPCO (default BAEC).

TUI

avios tui

A full-screen dashboard: your balance in the header and a scrollable transactions table. Press r to refresh, q to quit.

Roadmap

• Project scaffolding, packaging and CI
• Session + cookie storage layer
• Typed API client (balance, transactions, accounts, profile)
• Browser-assisted avios login
• CLI commands
• Textual TUI dashboard
• Reward-flight availability search (coming soon — needs a British Airways capture)

Development

uv sync            # installs the project + the `dev` dependency-group
uv run ruff check .
uv run mypy src
uv run pytest

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full workflow and CHANGELOG.md for release notes.

Security

No passwords are handled or stored — only your session cookie, kept locally at ~/.config/avios/state.json (mode 600). See SECURITY.md.

License

MIT