Data auto import for 3 ffiii accounts

[Chouille]

Hello.
I try to configure data import (auto import) from directory, but i don't understand how to correctly handle my need.
First of all, data import works correctly for me with the ui, and my stack (ffiii version = 6.2.9, data-importer version : 1.6.1 - i know, i need to update both :) ) is installed on an LXC container.

We have 3 FFIII accounts on our instance : My wife, me and a common account for shared banking accounts.
I create the following folder structure :

/srv/fidi/
---wife
------bank1account
------bank2account
---me
------bank3account
------bank4account
---family
------bank5account

My idea, if i well understood, is to put inside bankXAccount : csv files with transactions + a config json file export from a first import.
Then set a cron job to import data.

From bankXAccount folder, i run

php /opt/fidi/artisan importer:auto-import /srv/fidi/family/bankXAccount /

Output:

ApiHttpException: Could not connect to Firefly III at https://accounting.domain.xyz: Error accessing "https://accounting.domain.xyz/api/v1/about?". Status code is 401. Body is: {"message":"Unauthenticated","exception":"AuthenticationException"}
The last 25 chars of the access token are:
[a] No access, or no connection is possible to your local Firefly III instance at https://accounting.domain.xyz.

Where to set the correct token for each configuration file ?

Can someone have a good step-by-step guide to help me please ?

Best regards

[Chouille]

In waiting answers, i updated my stack to last version :)

[JC5]

Since you have to switch environment variables all the time, perhaps a little script is the solution. Something like this:

#!/bin/bash

SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )"
CONTAINER=fireflyiii/data-importer:develop-cli

docker pull $CONTAINER

git -C $SCRIPT_DIR pull

docker run \
--rm \
-v $SCRIPT_DIR/services/data-importer:/import \
-e FIREFLY_III_ACCESS_TOKEN=eyJ0... \
-e FIREFLY_III_URL=http://10.10.1.4:10000 \
-e VANITY_URL=https://.... \
-e MAIL_MAILER=smtp \

# etc...

-e WEB_SERVER=false \
$CONTAINER

You would need 3 scripts for 3 tokens, and you can point them in the right direction./

[Chouille]

Thanks @JC5 , but i don't use docker in my homelab but Proxmox LXC.

I would like to run CLI by a cron job. Following nimonimonimo in this discussion ,I created a file /srv/fidi/me/bank-example/_fallback.json with my import config, put a csv file with transactions, and try to run

FIREFLY_III_ACCESS_TOKEN=<MyToken>
php artisan importer:import /srv/fidi/me/bank-example

But always got the error :

2026-03-15 11:03:15] local.DEBUG: App\Services\Shared\Authentication\SecretManager::getAccessToken
[2026-03-15 11:03:15] local.DEBUG: No access token in session, will return header or config variable.
[2026-03-15 11:03:15] local.DEBUG: Access token in header is empty, will be ignored.
[2026-03-15 11:03:15] local.DEBUG: Access token is null, use config instead.
Trying to connect to https://accounting.domain.xyz...
The last 25 chars of the access token are:<It's Empty here>

ApiHttpException: Could not connect to Firefly III at https://accounting.domain.xyz: Error accessing "https://accounting.domain.tld/api/v1/about?". Status code is 401. Body is: {"message":"Unauthenticated.","exception":"AuthenticationException"}
The last 25 chars of the access token are:<It's Empty here>
No access granted, or no connection is possible to your local Firefly III instance at https://accounting.domain.xyz