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Update README with importing hint
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alexzorin committed Jul 13, 2019
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### authy-export
This program will enrol itself as an additional device on your Authy account and export all of your TOTP tokens in [Key URI Format](https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/wiki/Key-Uri-Format).

To use it:
**To use it:**

1. Run `authy-export`
2. The program will prompt you for your phone number country code (e.g. 1 for United States) and your phone number. This is the number that you used to register your Authy account originally.
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5. If the program is able to fetch your TOTP encrypted database, it will prompt you for your Authy backup password. This is required to decrypt the TOTP secrets for the next step.
6. The program will dump all of your TOTP tokens in URI format, which you can use to import to other applications.

**How do you then import it into another app?**

Up to you, depends on the app. If the app uses QR scanning, you can try stick all the dumped URIs into a file (`tokens`) and then scan each QR code from your terminal, e.g.:

```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
cat tokens | while IFS= read -r line; do
clear
echo -n "$line" | qrencode -t UTF8
read -p $"Press any key to continue" key < /dev/tty
done
```

## LICENSE

Copyright Alex Zorin 2019
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