NAME¶

pyjwt - Python implementation of JSON Web Token

SYNOPSIS¶

pyjwt [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

EXAMPLES¶

Decoding:

pyjwt --key=secret decode json.web.token

pyjwt decode --no-verify json.web.token

Encoding requires the key option and takes space separated key/value pairs separated by equals (=) as input.

Examples:

pyjwt --key=secret encode iss=me exp=1302049071

pyjwt --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).