A Laravel Artisan command to get an auth token from a User using UUID or email of that user. Validates UUID or email. Handy for testing authentication with Postman or CLI

get-token-from-user-using-uuid-console.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Artisan;
use Ramsey\Uuid\Rfc4122\Validator;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Console Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This file is where you may define all of your Closure based console
| commands. Each Closure is bound to a command instance allowing a
| simple approach to interacting with each command's IO methods.
|
*/

Artisan::command('user-token {emailOrId}', function (string $emailOrId): void {
    $validator = new Validator();
    $isUuid = $validator->validate($emailOrId);

    $user = User::where($isUuid ? 'id' : 'email', $emailOrId)->firstOrFail();
    $token = $user->createToken('default')->plainTextToken;

    /**
     * @psalm-suppress InvalidScope
     */
    $this->comment(sprintf('Authorization bearer token for %s is now "%s"', $user->email, $token));
})->purpose('Display a valid token for the given user');