Automate Heroku CLI login

Question

I\'m developing a bash script to automatic clone some projects and another task in dev VM\'s, but we have one project in Heroku and repository is in it. In my .sh file I hav

Answer 1

I agree that Heroku should have by now provided a way to do this with their higher level CLI tool.

You can avoid extreme solutions (and you should, just like Chris mentioned in his answer) by simply using curl and the Heroku API. Heroku allow you to use your API Token (obtainable through your user settings / profile page on the Heroku dashboard).

You can then use the API to achieve whatever it is you wanted to do with their command line tool.

For example, if I wanted to get all config vars for an app I would write a script that did something like the following:

-H "Accept: application/vnd.heroku+json; version=3" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN```

If *YOUR_APP_NAME* had only one config variable called *my_var* the response of the above call would be 

    { 
        "my_var": some_value
    }

I've found using this all the time in CI tools that need access to *Heroku* information / resources.