Question: How to run auth automatically with no user interaction?

[nbn22385]

Hello,

I have a script that runs as a daily cron job to send me a notification of any new episodes airing that day. Currently, when running the script on the command line, each time I must visit the authorization URL to retrieve a code, then input the code, and the script resumes.

After reading the Getting Started docs, I believe setting store=True would eliminate the need for this to be done each time my script runs. I would like to know how to have it run without user interaction. I understand the tokens expire every 24 hours, but I think the refresh token logic is already baked into the library.

Here is the script with sensitive values removed:

from trakt import init
from trakt.calendar import MyShowCalendar
import trakt.core
import datetime

def get_today_shows():
    calendar = MyShowCalendar(days=1)
    if not calendar:
        print("No shows airing today.")
        return

    for item in calendar:
        print(f"{item.show} - {item.title} (S{item.season:02}E{item.episode:02})")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    trakt.core.APPLICATION_ID = 'APPLICATION_ID_REMOVED'
    trakt.core.AUTH_METHOD = trakt.core.OAUTH_AUTH

    init('USERNAME_REMOVED', client_id='CLIENT_ID_REMOVED', client_secret='CLIENT_SECRET_REMOVED', store=True)
    
    # Is there a shorter init that can be called after the initial authorization?
    # init('USERNAME_REMOVED', store=True)

    print(trakt.core.CLIENT_ID) # prints None
    print(trakt.core.CLIENT_SECRET) # prints None
    print(trakt.core.OAUTH_TOKEN) # prints None

    get_today_shows()

I can see the ~/.pytrakt.json file is created with valid values, but when I print them in the script (print(trakt.core.XYZ)) the values resolve to None so I'm not sure they are being loaded.

[jyggen]

Migrated from 3.x to 4.x and ran into this issue as well. Previously I ran trakt.core.load_config() without the need for init() once authed, but that function has been removed. Dropping init() and running trakt.core.config().load() instead once authed seems to make it fully non-interactive on 4.x.