Possible Automation?

[ahmadawais]

Is it possible to automate the process?

• Install the plugin
• Code that creates and app
• Gets the passwords and uses it in the cURL requests.

[mAAdhaTTah]

You could probably do a bunch of that w/ WP-CLI, although I was just stopping by to check if there was a command to create a new application password, as I'm trying to do something I suspect similar to you (automate API testing).

[ahmadawais]

Nothing so far. Maybe we should ask @georgestephanis 🤔

[georgestephanis]

Wpcli command? Sure, I'll write it today.

[ahmadawais]

@georgestephanis while that would be awesome — if there's an API to automate the process

• Install the plugin
• Code that creates and app
• Gets the passwords and uses it in the cURL requests.

That would be awesome!

[mAAdhaTTah]

@ahmadawais The rest of those steps can be automated in bash w/ wp-cli, it doesn't have to be specific to this project.

[mAAdhaTTah]

@georgestephanis Thanks so much!

[ahmadawais]

@mAAdhaTTah I know bash and I know that could be done. But having it as an API to be used in PHP/JS would make things far more easier!

[mAAdhaTTah]

@ahmadawais WP_CLI::runcommand will allow you to call into WP_CLI commands in PHP rather than bash. I believe there's a wp-cli wrapper for node.js.

My point is just that the automation workflow you're looking for is going to be pretty specific to your use case and not something that should be added to an application passwords plugin.

[ahmadawais]

@mAAdhaTTah Not every server out there has WPCLI installed. So, an API is more powerful than support for WPCLI. Though, I welcome the WPCLI support here.