pyjwt3 (1) Linux Manual Page
pyjwt3 – Python implementation of JSON Web Token
Synopsis
pyjwt3 [,options/] <command> [,options/] ,input/Description
Encodes or decodes JSON Web Tokens based on inputOptions
- –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).