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diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
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+import uuid
+import pytest
+import requests
+from speckle.api.client import SpeckleClient
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def host():
+    return "127.0.0.1:3000"
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def seed_user(host):
+    seed = uuid.uuid4().hex
+    user_dict = {
+        "email": f"{seed[0:7]}@spockle.com",
+        "password": "$uper$3cr3tP@ss",
+        "name": f"{seed[0:7]} Name",
+        "company": "test spockle",
+    }
+
+    r = requests.post(
+        url=f"http://{host}/auth/local/register?challenge=pyspeckletests",
+        data=user_dict,
+    )
+    access_code = r.url.split("access_code=")[1]
+
+    r_tokens = requests.post(
+        url=f"http://{host}/auth/token",
+        json={
+            "appSecret": "spklwebapp",
+            "appId": "spklwebapp",
+            "accessCode": access_code,
+            "challenge": "pyspeckletests",
+        },
+    )
+
+    user_dict["token"] = r_tokens.json()["token"]
+
+    return user_dict
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def client(host, seed_user):
+    client = SpeckleClient(host=host, use_ssl=False)
+    client.authenticate(seed_user["token"])
+    return client