Feature request · API & developer experience · Blocks work
API sessions expire in two weeks, need a durable auth method
1 source thread · first seen 2016-06
Summary
Programmatic API access relies on session cookies that expire after two weeks, so a proper API authentication mechanism is needed.
- Affects
- Developers automating against the Metabase API
- Workaround
- Re-create session cookie every two weeks
Evidence
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“sessions expire after 2 weeks so this isn't ideal for programatic access to Metabase”