Skip to content

fix: strip stray characters from pasted API key on Windows #169

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
schpet merged 1 commit into from
Mar 6, 2026
Merged

fix: strip stray characters from pasted API key on Windows #169

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
9 changes: 6 additions & 3 deletions src/commands/auth/auth-login.ts
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ export const loginCommand = new Command()
.option("-k, --key <key:string>", "API key (prompted if not provided)")
.action(async (options) => {
try {
let apiKey = options.key
let apiKey = options.key?.trim()

if (!apiKey) {
apiKey = await Secret.prompt({
apiKey = (await Secret.prompt({
message: "Enter your Linear API key",
hint: "Create one at https://linear.app/settings/account/security",
})
}))?.trim()
}

if (!apiKey) {
Expand All @@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ export const loginCommand = new Command()
})
}

// Strip stray characters that some terminals (e.g. Windows) inject around pasted text
apiKey = apiKey.replace(/^[^a-zA-Z0-9_]+|[^a-zA-Z0-9_]+$/g, "")

// Validate the API key by querying the API
const client = createGraphQLClient(apiKey)

Expand Down