Login via token

[byorgey]

Would it be possible to add the ability to login via token rather than via password? I have always logged into Kattis via my Google account, so I do not have a Kattis password as such, but I can get a token via open.kattis.com/download/kattisrc.

I looked into adding this myself and opening a PR, but I am not very familiar with the libraries involved.

[RussellDash332]

Hi, sorry for the late reply!

This is a great addition, though I might need to explore a tad on Google's google.auth library for this 😆

[RussellDash332]

Hey, I have browsed on these different login methods as I was making v2.0 and here are my findings. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

• Github, Google, and LinkedIn logins are best when using OAuth2 methods but they require a client ID and a client secret for the OAuth app you are making. Client IDs are easy to find as you can try to attempt a login and obtain it from the URL generated as you get redirected. The client secret is the reason I didn't move forward with this approach.
• Token-based logins, as used in kattis-cli, are only used for submitting problems (strictly, I believe). With this, even when you managed to log in successfully, you are denied access to get the homepage's HTML content. In summary, I couldn't perform a GET request had I logged in via a token.

With this being said, I will leave this issue open, in case there is a solution to this. For now, let's stick to the email-based login 🐱, you can always the password string somewhere 😄

[byorgey]

OK, no worries, it's not that big of a deal. Thanks for looking into it!