password-state-client 1.0.0

A package to retrieve passwords from the Passwordstate API

passwords package

A package to interface with the Passwordstate API to retrieve passwords.

Setup

Install dependencies in requirements.txt

Initialize an object with the api base url and the api key:

• api_base_url (str): the base url of the Passwordstate api
• api_key (str): the api secret key

api_base_url = "https://passwords.mydomain.com"
api_key = "123mykey789"
pw_lookup = passwords.PasswordstateLookup(
    api_base_url,
    api_key
)

Usage

Use the object's methods to find passwords. eg:

pw_lookup.get_pw_by_title(5678, "my_password_title")
# returns the password with the given title in the given password list, as a string

or

pw_lookup.get_pw(1234)
# returns the password with id 1234 as a string

or

pw_lookup.get_pw_list(5678)
# returns a list of dictionaries including passwords for the password list with id 5678

Retrieve the username and password for a given account by its ID or title:

pw_lookup.get_login_by_title(5678, "my_password_title")
# returns a dictionary with the username and password for the account with the given title in the given password list

or

pw_lookup.get_login(1234)
# returns a dictionary with the username and password for the account with id 1234