jotty

= JOTTY - JWT Decoder

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This tool allows to decrypt link:https://jwt.io/[JSON Web Tokens] called JWT (pronounced as `jot`). It just decodes the token and prints the JSON contents.

[quote, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7519#section-1]
The suggested pronunciation of JWT is the same as the English word "jot".

== Usage

jotty [flags] <jwt-data>

or reading data from pipe

some-other-tool | jotty -f -

== Examples

  pbpaste | jotty -f -
  jotty -f test/jwt.txt
  jotty <jwt token data>
  pbpaste | jotty -f - --header=false --signature=false

.Sample JWt from https://jwt.io
[source,txt]
----
include::test/jwt.txt[]
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== Flags

`-f, --file string`::   --file=<filename> read token from file or - from stdin
`-h, --header`::        --header=false don't print the header of the JWT (default true)
`-?, --help`::          --help print usage information
`-p, --payload`::       --payload=false don't print the payload of the JWT (default true)
`-s, --signature`::     --signature=false don't print the signature of the JWT (default true)
`-v, --version`::       --version print version information