Authenticating

The pycyapi CLI must obtain an access token to authenticate with CyVerse. The token may be provided to commands via the --token parameter, or set as an environment variable CYVERSE_TOKEN. An access token can be obtained from the Terrain API by sending a request with basic auth headers (valid CyVerse username and password):

GET https://de.cyverse.org/terrain/token/cas

A token command is provided as convenient alternative to manually obtaining a token:

pycyapi token --username <username> --password <password>

The token is printed and can be used with the --token option to authenticate subsequent commands.

Note: the token command is the only one to return plain text — all other commands return JSON.