It's possible that other processes on your system may be able to see that password. Therefore, the password will be passed as a command line argument, which is less secure. The bw unlock and bw export commands (at time of writing) unfortunately do not allow specifying the password via environment variables.

If you log in with multiple different Bitwarden accounts, running this tool will switch which one you're logged in with.If you have MFA enabled, you'll likely need to run bw login at least once before running this executable to provide the MFA token.The purpose of this tool is to run the relevant commands against the bw executable and encrypt the data before it ever touches your hard drive. Unfortunately, this copy isn't encrypted. When you use the Bitwarden CLI, you're able to extract a CSV or JSON encoded copy of your entire vault. This is a simple tool, intended to solve a simple problem. Hopefully it will be useful to someone else.īelow is the README.md, which contains relevant information on how this tool works internally and how to get started.Ĭreate encrypted backups of your Bitwarden vault.

And today I decided to release this tool as open source. While I overall really like Bitwarden, one limitation is has is a lack of an encrypted export function.Ī few weeks ago, I decided to write a tool to automate the process of exporting a Bitwarden vault to a JSON file and encrypting it. Suffice it to say that if I ever lost access to that vault, I would be in a lot of trouble. At this point, my whole family is on it, as well as my company. I've been using Bitwarden as my password manager for years.

Backup bitwarden vault