JSON API

gopass-jsonapi enables communication with gopass via JSON messages.

This is particularly useful for browser plugins like gopassbridge running gopass as native app. More details can be found in api.md.

Project status

This is still work-in-progress and no regular release process has been defined. You might encounter outdated or incomplete documentation across different repositories and gopass versions.

Installation

gopass v1.10 / v1.11:

The binary for v1.10 and v1.11 can be downloaded and unpacked from archive files on Github Releases.

gopass v1.12 or newer:

You need to manually download the gopass-jsonapi binary from GitHub Releases, until it is available in popular package managers.

Alternatively you can compile it yourself if you have Go 1.14 (or greater) installed:

git clone https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass-jsonapi.git
cd gopass-jsonapi
make build
./gopass-jsonapi help

You need to run gopass-jsonapi configure for each browser you want to use with gopass.

Fedora:

The jsonapi is available in Fedora repositories, so you can simply install it with:

sudo dnf install gopass-jsonapi

Windows:

The jsonapi setup copies the current gopass-jsonapi binary as a wrapper executable file (gopass_native_host.exe calls the listener directly). It is recommended to run gopass-jsonapi configure after each update to have the latest version setup for your browser. The global setup requires to run gopass-jsonapi configure as Administrator.

Usage

Gopass allows filling in passwords in browsers leveraging a browser plugin like gopassbridge. The browser plugin communicates with gopass-jsonapi via JSON messages. To allow the plugin to interact with gopass-jsonapi, a native messaging manifest must be installed for each browser.

This native extension and the gopassbrigde plugin currently only support the Connectionless messaging with runtime.sendNativeMessage, i.e. the gopass-jsonapi will be started for every single message from the brower plugin.

You need to run gopass-jsonapi configure to configure your browser for gopass-jsonapi.

# Asks all questions concerning browser and setup
gopass-jsonapi configure

# Do not copy / install any files, just print their location and content
gopass-jsonapi configure --print

# Specify browser and wrapper path
gopass-jsonapi configure --browser chrome --path /home/user/.local/

How user name is determined

The user name/login is determined from login, username and user yaml attributes (after the --- separator) like this:

<your password>
---
username: <your username>

As fallback, the last part of the path is used, e.g. theuser1 for Internet/github.com/theuser1 entry.

Supported Browsers

Linux / macOS

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Chromium
• Brave
• Vivaldi
• Iridium
• Slimjet

Windows

• Firefox
• Chrome
• Chromium
• Brave

Contributing

Thank you very much for supporting gopass. Pull requests are welcome.

Please follow the gopass contribution guidelines and Pull Request checklist.