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post Get account data programatically from id-manager 2016-11-18 12:43:13
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Gergely Polonkai gergely@polonkai.eu

I recently started using id-manager. It is a nice little package that can store your passwords, encrypting them with GPG. My original reason was to store my GitHub access token for github-notifier, but it soon turned out, its not that easy.

id-manager is a nice package when it comes to storing your password, and retrieving them for your own eyes. But it cannot retrieve account data programatically. Taking a look into its source code, I came up with this solution:

{% gist gergelypolonkai/8bad70502ac563864080f754fce726c3 idm.el %}

I currently need only the account ID (ie. the username) and the password, but its pretty easy to add a macro to get the memo or update-time fields, too.