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Expand Up @@ -17,6 +17,20 @@ To follow your gateway `gtw1` and application `app1` events at the same time:
$ ttn-lw-cli events subscribe --gateway-id gtw1 --application-id app1
```

#### Subscribing events for a longer duration:
Login on to the CLI using the OAuth Access token will allow subscribing to the events for a shorter-duration since the OAuth Access tokens had an expiry of one hour. Login to CLI using a User API Key to avoid the problem with the expiry of the OAuth token and can log events without interruptions for a longer duration.

**To login to CLI using the User API key follow the below steps:**
1. Login to The Things Stack Console.
1. Click on Username from the top right corner of the Console.
1. Click on Personal API keys from the dropdown
1. Click +Add API key button
1. You can create a User API Key in The Things Stack Console by assigning the rights of your choice.
1. Now, login to CLI using the below ttn-lw-cli command.

```bash
$ ttn-lw-cli login --api-key <API KEY>
```
## Subscribe with HTTP

You can get streaming events with `curl`. For this, you need an API key for the entities you want to watch, for example:
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