Generate authenticator app provisioning URI

A while ago I published a snippet to generate an OTP auth token from the command line, but I recently got a new phone and had to re-add all my secret keys to a different authenticator app. As I keep all the secret keys backed up I made another script to generate the URI with the correct format, see below.

Don't forget to pip install pyotp.

I pipe the resulting link into the qr tool (pip install qrcode) and scan that with my phone.

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        #!/usr/bin/env python

import argparse

from pyotp import totp


if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Generate OTP QR url")
    parser.add_argument("secret", type=str)
    parser.add_argument("issuer", type=str)
    parser.add_argument("name", type=str, help="e.g. login name")

    args = parser.parse_args()

    print(
        totp.TOTP(args.secret).provisioning_uri(name=args.name, issuer_name=args.issuer)
    )

Generate authenticator app provisioning URI

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