How can I programatically list entities and their attributes?

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I need to retrieve, programatically(*), the list of all entities and their attributes (notably its label(s)). I will then filter for specific labels and inquire about their state.

After having gone though Entities: integrating devices & services | Home Assistant Developer Docs, Config Entries | Home Assistant Developer Docs, Hass object | Home Assistant Developer Docs and other docs I cannot find THE place to query in order to get both the entities list and their attributes (I found how to get a bare list of entities, that’s all).

What is the proper way to access them?

(*) I will be using pyscript for that

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I found it in the code for the frontend at frontend/src/data/entity_registry.ts at 6421a9443dae28f1d10eee923623d9fc75a7572c · home-assistant/frontend · GitHub

You need to send to the WebSockets API the message

ws.send(
            json.dumps(
                {
                    "id": 10,
                    "type": "config/entity_registry/list",
                }
            )
        )

It looks like there are plenty of API calls that are not documented.

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I’m also looking out trying to get some weird :rofl: scripted “automations” :innocent:
@WoJWoJ Could you share what you’ve done and how you’ve got the results, use them, query them and then used them as wished.

Many thanks in advance