Authentnication token expires after 2 days and import fails thereafter.

[dgaastra]

Dear Matomo!

Thanks for making such a great tool. We exclusively use the log importer and cannot use any live trackers due to performance and GDPR matters:

Problem: after having started the log importer as a daemon, it stops working after 48 hours...

Startup:
[DEBUG] No token-auth specified
[DEBUG] No credentials specified, reading them from "/usr/share/matomo/config/config.ini.php"
[DEBUG] Authentication token token_auth is: 2b63873d2d3a6afa6a49355f96ac2b3d

A token file token.php is correctly created in /matomo/tmp/cache/

Failure after 48 hours:

[INFO] The Matomo tracker identified 57 invalid requests.
[INFO] The Matomo tracker identified 57 invalid requests.
...

The Web-GUI shows:
Request was not authenticated but authentication was required. Set or correct a "token_auth" in your tracking request. Learn more

How can we make it work indefinitely?

Thanks
Dennis.

[sgiehl]

Hi @dgaastra,
The token created when starting the script is indeed only valid for 48 hours. If you want to run the script longer, you can simply create a app specific token manually for the super user within the Matomo UI. This can then be used with the log importer by providing it as parameter --token-auth=XXX

[dgaastra]

To stay independent of the GUI, and clean, would it be possible to have a parameter --token-duration=indefinitely ?

[sgiehl]

Sure, that would be possible. But we currently don't have the capacity to implement that soon. If you have some time left, feel free to create a PR for that. The token lifetime is actually set here:

matomo-log-analytics/import_logs.py

Lines 1052 to 1058 in 6f9c05d

	api_result = matomo.call_api('UsersManager.createAppSpecificTokenAuth',
	userLogin=matomo_login,
	passwordConfirmation=matomo_password,
	description='Log importer',
	expireHours='48',
	_token_auth='',
	_url=self.options.matomo_api_url,