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Anonymous
October 2, 2023
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CLI Search for Username

  • October 2, 2023
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I'm trying to setup automation to fetch and save passwords to 1Password, however, I don't seem to see any way to find an Item by username other than to individually query each item in the list. I expected to be able to use the list function, but it doesn't return the username, only the title, so its not useful. Is there a proper way to find an Item by username?

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Anonymous
October 5, 2023

Try JSON format, i.e. op item list --format json, username should be tied to "additional_information".

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Anonymous
October 9, 2023

The package I was using didn't expose that property. I've now switched to using Connect as its much faster, and will work better for what we need anyway.

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bstrautin
November 15, 2023

op item list --format json takes ~12 seconds to run (returning ~1200 items), which is annoyingly long in an interactive context.

I would love to be able to type op item search "whatever" and have it return the same results as a GUI search for "whatever".

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