Obtaining Service Credentials from the Command Line

Displaying Service Access Credentials via the Command Line

The following command will display access credentials for you services. Replace <application_name> with your application's name.

$ cf env <application_name>

The output will look similar to this:

{
 "VCAP_SERVICES": {
  "dialog": [
   {
    "credentials": {
     "password": "HGHglThMFjUH",
     "url": "https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/dialog/api",
     "username": "eb78e217-69c2-461c-b722-fae7f65efb04"
    },
    "label": "dialog",
    "name": "ipa-dialog_service",
    "plan": "standard",
    "tags": [
     "watson",
     "ibm_created",
     "ibm_dedicated_public"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "natural_language_classifier": [
   {
    "credentials": {
     "password": "cAUVlR5e2O3J",
     "url": "https://gateway.watsonplatform.net/natural-language-classifier/api",
     "username": "0e7bc536-f63c-4174-b44d-27a5dbb28d20"
    },
    "label": "natural_language_classifier",
    "name": "ipa-nlc_service",
    "plan": "standard",
    "tags": [
     "watson",
     "ibm_created",
     "ibm_dedicated_public"
    ]
   }
  ]
 }
}

{
 "VCAP_APPLICATION": {
  "application_name": "<application_name>",
  "application_uris": [
   "<application_name>.mybluemix.net"
  ],
  "application_version": "0ab29130-3118-40aa-96f1-fa69da69e316",
  "limits": {
   "disk": 1024,
   "fds": 16384,
   "mem": 128
  },
  "name": "<application_name>",
  "space_id": "433a3902-f6fb-4c34-9819-1ff92f58579a",
  "space_name": "dev",
  "uris": [
   "<application_name>.mybluemix.net"
  ],
  "users": null,
  "version": "0ab29130-3118-40aa-96f1-fa69da69e316"
 }
}