I do not think so – I think that would be a nice feature.

For example:
Company who rents webspace and wants to track the user date for the customer. In the admin interface is an link to login direct to piwik with the right permissions.
So it would not be necessary to build an own UI and connect to the api.

Also this is advertising for the open source software.

I would propose following:
In the default settings token_auth is disabled and admin could activate in UI (or in the config file).

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What about Widgetize? That process calls the API indirectly. We are experiencing problems because we are unable to use the Widgets in our drupal app because of this problem. We have to log in and the cookie allows the charts to work. It would be better if we could use the token_auth feature with Widgetize too.

chuckdeal97 please see your feature request in #283 ; feel free to submit any ideas or patches

reopening as I am now convinced that Widgetize is another special case where token_auth should work, at least until #283 is implemented.

I dont know how to submit a patch but this is what I added in plugins/Login/Login.php
on line 68 to make it work with token_auth

        if(Piwik::getModule() === 'Widgetize')
        {
            $tokenAuthAPIInUrl = Piwik_Common::getRequestVar('token_auth', '', 'string');
            if( !empty($tokenAuthAPIInUrl))
            {
                $auth->setLogin($login = null);
                $auth->setTokenAuth($tokenAuthAPIInUrl);
                return;
            }
        }

I am a bit confused; I generated the widget and manually added the token_auth in the widget URL, eg.```
module=Widgetize&action=iframe&.......&token_auth=$TOKEN_AUTH

And the widgets loaded fine. I thought this wasn't working. This means this bug is invalid; the downside is that you have to manually add the token_auth in the widget URLs but this is expected, as we do not want users to expose by mistake their token_auth, hence why we removed it from the URL.

(In [1935]) Fixes #5655 clarifying documentation regarding widget authentication