How to create a long lived token programmatically using web socket (username and password)

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I’m having issues obtaining a long lived token programmatically. How can I obtain a long lived token when establishing a web socket connection using my username and password?

I’m able to obtain the token after a web socket connection is created, but I need a token to establish the connection first. Chicken and egg situation…

The below Node Red flow works fine once connected, but again how can I establish a web socket connection when I don’t have an existing long lived token to connect with initially?

NOTE - the assumption here is headless, meaning the application needs to perform this action using the API. I don’t want to manually log into the UI to create the long lived token. I want to create the token using my username and password via the API.

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If I understood correctly, you want to login with username/password and generate long lived token.

I think, we don’t want credentials (password) to move around freely and that is because you should generate the first token yourself. Checking the floe diagram below page might help

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Thanks for the quick reply, but I already looked through the documentation. My issue here is that I want to automatically provision a remote Node Red system with a new long lived token without logging into the HA UI to create the initial long lived token. There is got to be a way to do this… Any suggestions?

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There’s an official JS websocket client that will handle the auth for you.

Check out: