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Comment by leejoramo | Hacker News Reader

1password's data format is publicly documented and a variety of unofficial ways to access data have been created. For example on the command line there are:

Python: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/1pass

Node: https://github.com/oggy/1pass

And the creator of 1Password, AglieBits officially includes 1PasswordAnywhere for access via HTML/javascript:

https://guides.agilebits.com/1password-mac/5/en/topic/1passw...

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The docs on their format were very useful, although the 1PasswordAnywhere was more useful when actually writing this. I also wish they'd switch over to their new file format everywhere, it's confusing to read all about the 1Password 4/5 file formats, and realize they aren't the one that's actually in use.

I also wish they documented the structure of their data after its decrypted. There are at least 3 different ways the data gets represented.

1PasswordAnywhere is a joke. They are selling a first class desktop password management experience and that is not it.

Not sure what you mean by this. 1PasswordAnywhere is not intended to replace the apps. It is intended to give you portable access to your passwords. I think it does a pretty good job of that. Replacing all of the features that required writing to the database (and dealing with sync) in a in-browser javascript app is asking a bit much.

To start with, you don't have write access to the file system. That is a pretty big technical block.

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