Is it possible to login programmatically?

[babaggeii]

How would you go about logging in programmatically? Is there a sessions api URL or something similar?

[mootzville]

@babaggeii What is your purpose once you log in this way? I can think of a couple ways, but it depends on what you are trying to do...

[babaggeii]

@mootzville There are categories that are only visible to admins. I want to grab the data from the api and use it in a separate app.

[mootzville]

Is it necessary to log in to do this? Maybe you can just ask the db for the info and pass that to your app?

I use mongo, so for that I might:

1. Create a db user in mongo with read-only privileges for the db.
2. Then, make a script to query the db via your read-only user for the info you are wanting.
3. Pipe the data to the app.

[babaggeii]

@mootzville I guess I could do that, but I was hoping for the much easier and safter method of using the API. With the plans for the write API, we wanted to build our app around it, so that method is certainly preferable.

[julian]

@babaggeii The write API would contain support for API keys (and later on, access tokens), so there are plans to allow the write API to expose user-specific routes using the same user auth system as well.