# Will I be able to manually get a certificate?
**URL:** https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/will-i-be-able-to-manually-get-a-certificate/172
**Category:** Issuance Tech
**Created:** [August 14, 2015, 10:37am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/will-i-be-able-to-manually-get-a-certificate/172 "2015-08-14T10:37:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@darkstrym](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/darkstrym)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2015, 10:37am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/will-i-be-able-to-manually-get-a-certificate/172/1 "2015-08-14T10:37:22Z")
I keep seeing about how the script will automatically create the certificate. Will I be able to also do this manually?
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### Author:  [@ac000](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/ac000)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2015, 10:43am UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/will-i-be-able-to-manually-get-a-certificate/172/2 "2015-08-14T10:43:42Z")
The closest I’ve seen to this is (from [https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/](https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/))
Without Automatic Web Server Configuration
$ letsencrypt -d [example.com](http://example.com) auth
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### Author:  [@jcjones](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/jcjones)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/will-i-be-able-to-manually-get-a-certificate/172/3 "2015-08-14T15:28:29Z")
The official client has a “manual” mode, and other clients can, of course, implement different manual modes that may prove more suitable for your use case.
For example, [Boulder has a (not secret) Node.JS ACME client inside its repo](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/tree/master/test/js) that is just about as manual as using `curl`. It’s certainly not intended as a user friendly product, but we use it for integration testing, so it works.