If you run phi auth and you get the error: CLI authentication failed or your CLI gets stuck on

Waiting for a response from browser...

It means that your CLI was not able to authenticate with your Phidata account on phidata.app

The quickest fix for this is to export your PHI_API_KEY environment variable. You can do this by running the following command:

export PHI_API_KEY=<your_api_key>

Your API key can be found on phidata.app in the sidebar under API Key.

phi-api-key

Reason for CLI authentication failure:

  • Some browsers like Safari and Brave block connection to the localhost domain. Browsers like Chrome work great with phi auth.