Remember login info

[julianfairfax]

Having to login each time you want to use the tool makes using it more difficult.

[FairyNatza]

I looked at the code, and at least you can pass some parameters to the program. So you could create a shortcut in Windows for this program and add the parameters to the path in the target. It should look like this: "proton-mail-export-cli.exe" --user=username@proton.me --password=****** --export-dir="C:\Export" --totp=123456 --mbox-password=****

You only need "totp" if you have the second factor (time-based one-time password) enabled, and "mbox-password" if you have the second password active in your account.

Hope this helps.

[julianfairfax]

--export-dir didn't work for me and --totp doesn't make sense for my use case, but the username and password work! Thank you @FairyNatza!

[net47]

Just came across this issue, here's a really dirty script to get it even with TOTP working:

#!/bin/bash

# base credentials
username=your-user
password=your-password

# calculate the TOTP from the secret
totp=$(/usr/bin/oathtool --base32 --totp "your-totp-secret" -d 6)

# if TOTP calculation successful, run the backup
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  ./proton-mail-export-cli --operation backup --dir . --user $username --password $password --totp $totp
else
  echo "TOTP calculation failed!"
  exit 1
fi

You'll need oathtool (https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/oathtool) for calculating the TOTP code.