Is there a way / planned way to load secrets?
Hi @Ian_Calvert, we’ve highlighted your message internally, so one of our engineers will hopefully get back to you shortly with our plans.
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This feature is on our roadmap, but we’re still not sure exactly when we’re planning on releasing this. A couple of users have asked already, so rest assured it’s high on our priorities.
It would help us to know how you’re planning to use secrets / environment variables across your streamlit app – would really appreciate anything you can share here.
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I’ve often got a variety of API keys, database passwords and credential files that are required to access various services. A way of having files that get copies into some location would solve the issues for me, and that would be required for some use cases.
Edit - being able to specify locations would mean I can copy a credentials file to the standard one for aws
This is probably my biggest request as well.
Right now I only have a single secret that I need to manage: my Weights and Biases API key. I currently have a text_input in the app where I can post the API key, but that limits the application usage to people who have knowledge of my API key (me).
I would love to be able to go into the s4a.streamlit.io UI and add a list of key value pairs for a given app that get loaded in as environment variables at container runtime.
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+1 here.
a way to put in env variables, would be great.
I use them for was keys, to access dynamodb etc.
A hint could be to look at Heroku, how they do it.
it just a simple table, where you can add env variables, that get’s picked up by the container.
btw. other than that, it looks really great. So keep up the great work 
+1 here.
I use Google Earth Engine, which requires creating a credentials file by loading the environment variable. Heroku supports this. It would be nice if streamlit can support this as well.
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I need to access the Github API from my streamlit app, so need to store the API token.
Locally, I have a .env file with the credentials, which I load via python-dotenv. As others noted, Heroku has a nice way of handling secrets (see here), but it’s all through the terminal, so not sure if applicable to streamlit sharing at the moment. Github Actions offers a web interface where you can input secrets and access them from within config files (see here).
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+1. This would be amazing
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@randyzwitch are there any updates on the secret management feature? Asking to decide whether to test streamlit sharing or to go for a self-hosted solution.
Thanks!
It is expected to be released one week from today, but like any other estimate, that’s subject to change.
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Hi everyone -
Secrets management is now available in Streamlit sharing! You need to upgrade to version 0.80 of Streamlit, the temporary documentation location is linked below.
Best,
Randy
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