Tiny shellscript to authenticate to Pocket (getpocket.com).

pocket-login.bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash

REDIRECT="http://127.0.0.1:7777"

echo "Enter your consumer key."
echo "You can get it from: https://getpocket.com/developer/apps/new"
read -p "> " consumer_key

code=$(
  curl -sX POST --data "consumer_key=$consumer_key&redirect_uri=$REDIRECT" \
  https://getpocket.com/v3/oauth/request |
  grep -Po '(?<=code=)[^&]*')

echo "Open:"
echo "  https://getpocket.com/auth/authorize?request_token=${code}&redirect_uri=$REDIRECT"

echo -ne 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\nContent-Type: text/plain\nContent-Length: 5\n\nDone.' |
  nc -W 1 -l 7777 >/dev/null
echo "Callback received."

ret=$(curl --fail -sX POST --data "consumer_key=$consumer_key&code=$code" \
  https://getpocket.com/v3/oauth/authorize)

user="$(echo "$ret" | grep -Po '(?<=username=)[^&]*')"
token="$(echo "$ret" | grep -Po '(?<=access_token=)[^&]*')"

echo "POCKET_USER=$user"
echo "POCKET_TOKEN=$token"
echo "POCKET_CONSUMER_KEY=$consumer_key"