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[hearty jungle]

Hey! do give me some time to take a look at this

Could i clarify if you receive an error when you try to run a live mode command?

[solar ermine]

No errors, just have to auth every time. And when I go to auth, it only lets me select testing or sandbox mode.

I want to be able to run live mode commands to read in my shell.

[hearty jungle]

Could you send me an example CLI command that you ran and was asked to authenticate

Do remember to remove any apiKeys or mask it (e.g. sk_test_xxx)

[solar ermine]

Absolutely anything with --live flag. For example, stripe subscriptions list --live

[hearty jungle]

You would have to specify this flag as well --api-key with the live mode or test mode secret key

https://docs.stripe.com/stripe-cli/keys#specify-an-api-key

[solar ermine]

What's the point of the --live flag then?

I don't want to have to be pasting a live api key into my terminal constantly, that is a major security concern.

[hearty jungle]

Where did you see the --live flag from?

I dont think we have such a flag: https://docs.stripe.com/cli/flags#flags-Flags

[hearty jungle]

You dont have to keep pasting it

[solar ermine]

Directly from the stripe docs

For example, https://docs.stripe.com/cli/listen#listen-live

Also, https://docs.stripe.com/cli/events/resend#events_resend-live and https://docs.stripe.com/cli/get#get-live and https://docs.stripe.com/cli/post#post-live and https://docs.stripe.com/cli/delete#delete-live

[solar ermine]

How else would I specificy the api key using --api-key?

[hearty jungle]

This is for the stripe listen webhook command, it is specific to stripe listen command, and only can come after the listen

[hearty jungle]

yup, give me a while to come up with an example!

[solar ermine]

You mentioned here that I needed the --live flag as well as the --api-key flag, so again, what's the point of the --live flag? Why are there config vars for api keys?

[solar ermine]

I mentioned a lot more than just the listen command. --live is a valid flag for any stripe CLI command.

Hello?

[hearty jungle]

hey! Yes upon checking the documentation and testing it out, --live flag, it is meant to make live requests

Was there a prompt to allow your terminal to access live mode api keys?

If you checked "Always allow", the prompt to re-authenticate would have stopped appearing

[solar ermine]

So, was I correct or not?

[solar ermine]

No, as I said: the option to authenticate with the live environment isn't even there

[solar ermine]

See this message

I can only select testing or sandbox when authenticating

[hearty jungle]

Could you share with me a screenshot of this?

[solar ermine]

Did you ever get this example?

[solar ermine]

Man, can you just trust me that this is happening and help find a solution? I feel like I'm just arguing about whether flags are valid or not and whether this is actually happening or not

Or is there anyone else that has more knowledge around the stripe CLI that can help out here? @hearty jungle

[hearty jungle]

Hmmm, that is weird, could i get your account ID to investigate this further? (acct_xxx) I will also be roping my colleague in on this

[solar ermine]

@hearty jungle

[solar ermine]

@hearty jungle

[solar ermine]

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@hearty jungle you still there?

[hearty jungle]

Yup, do give me some time, we are testing it out again on our end again

[solar ermine]

All good, just hoping to get responses to my questions above.

[hearty jungle]

Hey we just tested this out and realised that the —-live flag only works when the CLI is authenticated with test mode, and will not work when it is authenticated with Sandbox mode.

Could you test this out on your end as well?

[solar ermine]

Yeah we only use test mode

We never use sandbox

[elder lion]

Hey! Taking over for my colleague. Let me catch up.

Could you please clarify why you want to make live request with the stripe cli ?

Stripe CLI is just for tests and it's not reliable for live and production integration. You should be using Stripe SDKs in your production/live integration