How to do Contentful Login with no local web browser

[cyberrodent]

Expected Behavior

It seems not possible to set up contentful-cli access without a local web browser.

vm:~/development/Contentful] $ contentful login

A browser window will open where you will log in (or sign up if you don’t have an account), authorize this CLI tool and paste your CMA token here:

? Open a browser window now? No
Log in aborted by the user.

vm:~/development/Contentful] $ contentful login

A browser window will open where you will log in (or sign up if you don’t have an account), authorize this CLI tool and paste your CMA token here:

? Open a browser window now? Yes
? Paste your token here:

It says to paste in the CMA token but pasting in my CMA token doesn't have any effect -- I think its not really wanting the CMA token but rather some sort of oauth refresh token

Don't want to have to install X-windows and a browser just to run migrations.

[mashaal]

We experienced a similar issue -- on Windows, the login command closes after opening the browser window, not allowing entry of the authentication token.

We had to create a .contentfulrc.json file and manually paste the authentication token into it, allowing us to use the cli. This may work in your case as well @cyberrodent?

Here is how the .contentfulrc.json is formatted.

{
  "cmaToken": "xxx"
}

Being able to manually enter an authentication token via argument would be a great alternative.

[Khaledgarbaya]

you can also contentful config add --management-token token check the config command

[phoebeschmidt]

Closing due to inactivity. Feel free to open another issue if you have more problems.

[chpi6297]

you can also contentful config add --management-token token check the config command

I'm running contentful-cli from my dev mac. It manages to open a browser and authenticate and create token, but when I copy and paste the token into the terminal and hit enter key as instructed nothing happens. The config add method works still. I recently installed the cli tool.

[Marcelovv2]

This issue is still present on Windows 10 home PowerShell, I was able to log in within vs code terminal.

Can't paste here:

[Suvetha-C]

This issue is still present on Windows 10 home PowerShell, I was able to log in within vs code terminal.

Can't paste here:

i too have that same problem did u find any solution

[Marcelovv2]

@Suvetha-C yes for me it worked within the terminal of Visual Studio Code