Providing to URnetwork

To provide your internet to URnetwork, you run a small provider application on your system, which shares your internet with the network. This application is often referred to as the "provider binary" or "provider executable".

We maintain URnetwork provider binaries for many platforms and architectures, including GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows. We'll give you a short guide on how set them up on your system.

Windows

Run the following command to install provider for windows as well as urnet-tools:

powershell -c "irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/urnetwork/connect/refs/heads/main/scripts/Provider_Install_Win32.ps1 | iex"

This command will install the latest URnetwork provider binary, and a small helper tool called urnet-tools.

After you run this script, you should follow the steps in the post install instructions section.

Post-install instructions

The first thing to do after installation is to restart your terminal (close it then open up a new one)

This will ensure urnetwork commands work from now on.

To further verify that your installation was successful, run:

urnetwork -help
urnet-tools -help

Both of these commands should print out help instructions.

Authentication

Next, you have to log into URnetwork. To do so, run:

urnetwork auth

Then:

It will ask for an auth code. You can obtain an auth code at https://ur.io, https://app.ur.network or inside the mobile app. The auth code button should be located in the settings section of their respective app.

If your auth code was correctly copied, you should be logged into URnetwork now. The command above saves your account JWT token to ~/.urnetwork/jwt. You should not share this with anyone.