Tesla login-token generator

[VerityZooms]

Hey, thought I'd throw this out there real quick: if you're using something like TeslaLog or the My Tesla Alexa-skill, and need an authentication token, I've thrown together a little self-installing tool to generate them quickly. (It doesn't store them anywhere, or contact any servers other than Tesla's — so no giving out your Tesla password to random websites, which is A Good Thing™.)

If you're a developer like myself, and already have recent npm, you can just use the new npx tool to run this without any installation:

npx generate-tesla-token

If you have no idea what any of that means, you can open the Terminal application on your Mac, and type these two lines:

npm install -g generate-tesla-token
generate-tesla-token

(And no, that isn't a working login token in the screenshot. )

 

[DOCAL]

(And no, that isn't a working login token in the screenshot. )

Fun, spoilt

 

[HankLloydRight]

Nice job.

Since a lot of people are installing VisibleTesla just to get their list of option codes (and new drive unit code), maybe when you get the token, also grab their options list and optionally display it?

 

[dwploc]

Tried but err
(xenial)dwploc@localhost:~/aumc-test$ npx generate-tesla-token
npx: installed 161 in 14.003s
Unexpected token function

 

[kirkbauer]

I'm also getting "Unexpected token function"

 

[GaryREM]

You need to update nodejs to latest. Using v8 of nodejs will work.

 

[dwploc]

Thanks, I had updated to npm v5.0.3 and node v8.1.4 Now it works great.

 

[VerityZooms]

Thanks, I had updated to npm v5.0.3 and node v8.1.4 Now it works great.

Yeah, I'm a lazy buttface, and just knocked this together on a whim — didn't bother testing in older versions. I'm sure I used some ES2016-ism or something by accident.

I'm happy to accept any pull-request — don't even have to make it pretty; just click the link and fix whichever line's erroring:

Build software better, together

 

[VerityZooms]

Nice job.

Since a lot of people are installing VisibleTesla just to get their list of option codes (and new drive unit code), maybe when you get the token, also grab their options list and optionally display it?

Sounds out-of-scope, tbh. That said, a generalized npm install -g tesla tool, based on TeslaJS but with a consistent CLI and configstore token-caching, would probably be a well-received project … and given that TeslaJS has done all the hard work, wouldn't be at all difficult to throw together, if you wanted to! <3

 

[ahmadr]

Thanks! Works perfectly

P.S. For others, on a mac, you need to run these three commands from the terminal:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install node
npx generate-tesla-token

 

[Grioflorido]

Fun, spoilt

i cant find a way to create a token.

 

[HankLloydRight]

See this post for an alternative method: Tesla API Token Generator