nextstrain login

Log into Nextstrain.org and save credentials for later use.

The first time you log in, you’ll be prompted for your Nextstrain.org username and password. After that, locally-saved authentication tokens will be used and automatically renewed as needed when you run other nextstrain commands requiring log in. You can also re-run this nextstrain login command to force renewal if you want. You’ll only be prompted for your username and password if the locally-saved tokens are unable to be renewed or missing entirely.

If you log out of Nextstrain.org on other devices/clients (like your web browser), you may be prompted to re-enter your username and password by this command sooner than usual.

Your password itself is never saved locally.

For automation purposes, you may opt to provide the username and password to use in the environment variables NEXTSTRAIN_USERNAME and NEXTSTRAIN_PASSWORD.

usage: nextstrain login [-h] [--username <name>] [--no-prompt]

Named Arguments

--username, -u

The username to log in as. If not provided, the NEXTSTRAIN_USERNAME environment variable will be used if available, otherwise you’ll be prompted to enter your username.

--no-prompt

Never prompt for a username/password; succeed only if there are login credentials in the environment or existing valid/renewable tokens saved locally, otherwise error. Useful for scripting.

Default: False