pyjwt3 (1) Linux Manual Page
NAME
pyjwt3 – Python implementation of JSON Web Token
SYNOPSIS
pyjwt3 [,options/] <command> [,options/] ,input/
DESCRIPTION
Encodes or decodes JSON Web Tokens based on input
OPTIONS
–version- show program’s version number and exit
-h,–help- show this help message and exit
-n,–no-verify- ignore signature verification on decode
–key=,KEY/- set the secret key to sign with
–alg=,ALG/- set crypto algorithm to sign with. default=HS256
PyJWT subcommands are: ,encode/ and ,decode/.
- encode
- use to encode a supplied payload
- decode
- use to decode a supplied JSON web token
EXAMPLES
Decoding:
pyjwt3 –key=,secret/ decode json.web.token
pyjwt3 decode –no-verify json.web.token
Encoding requires the key option and takes space separated key/value pairs separated by equals (=) as input.
Examples:
pyjwt3 –key=,secret/ encode iss=me exp=1302049071
pyjwt3 –key=,secret/ encode foo=bar exp=+10
The exp key is special and can take an offset to current Unix time.
AUTHOR
Jeff Lindsay <progrium [at] gmail.com>
This manual page was written by Daniele Tricoli <eriol [at] mornie.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).