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@gmail.com>

This manual page was written by Daniele Tricoli <eriol@mornie.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).