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Personal access tokens API (FREE)

You can read more about personal access tokens.

List personal access tokens

• Introduced in GitLab 13.3.
• Moved from GitLab Ultimate to GitLab Free in 13.6.
• created_after, created_before, last_used_after, last_used_before, revoked, search and state filters were introduced in GitLab 15.5.

Get all personal access tokens the authenticated user has access to. By default, returns an unfiltered list of:

• Only personal access tokens created by the current user to a non-administrator.
• All personal access tokens to an administrator.

Administrators:

• Can use the user_id parameter to filter by a user.
• Can use other filters on all personal access tokens (GitLab 15.5 and later).

Non-administrators:

• Cannot use the user_id parameter to filter on any user except themselves, otherwise they receive a 401 Unauthorized response.
• Can only filter on their own personal access tokens (GitLab 15.5 and later).

GET /personal_access_tokens
GET /personal_access_tokens?created_after=2022-01-01T00:00:00
GET /personal_access_tokens?created_before=2022-01-01T00:00:00
GET /personal_access_tokens?last_used_after=2022-01-01T00:00:00
GET /personal_access_tokens?last_used_before=2022-01-01T00:00:00
GET /personal_access_tokens?revoked=true
GET /personal_access_tokens?search=name
GET /personal_access_tokens?state=inactive
GET /personal_access_tokens?user_id=1

Supported attributes:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
created_after	datetime (ISO 8601)	{dotted-circle} No	Limit results to PATs created after specified time.
created_before	datetime (ISO 8601)	{dotted-circle} No	Limit results to PATs created before specified time.
last_used_after	datetime (ISO 8601)	{dotted-circle} No	Limit results to PATs last used after specified time.
last_used_before	datetime (ISO 8601)	{dotted-circle} No	Limit results to PATs last used before specified time.
revoked	boolean	{dotted-circle} No	Limit results to PATs with specified revoked state. Valid values are true and false.
search	string	{dotted-circle} No	Limit results to PATs with name containing search string.
state	string	{dotted-circle} No	Limit results to PATs with specified state. Valid values are active and inactive.
user_id	integer or string	{dotted-circle} No	Limit results to PATs owned by specified user.

Example request:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/personal_access_tokens"

Example response:

[
    {
        "id": 4,
        "name": "Test Token",
        "revoked": false,
        "created_at": "2020-07-23T14:31:47.729Z",
        "scopes": [
            "api"
        ],
        "user_id": 24,
        "last_used_at": "2021-10-06T17:58:37.550Z",
        "active": true,
        "expires_at": null
    }
]

Example request:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/personal_access_tokens?user_id=3"

Example response:

[
    {
        "id": 4,
        "name": "Test Token",
        "revoked": false,
        "created_at": "2020-07-23T14:31:47.729Z",
        "scopes": [
            "api"
        ],
        "user_id": 3,
        "last_used_at": "2021-10-06T17:58:37.550Z",
        "active": true,
        "expires_at": null
    }
]

Example request:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/personal_access_tokens?revoked=true"

Example response:

[
    {
        "id": 41,
        "name": "Revoked Test Token",
        "revoked": true,
        "created_at": "2022-01-01T14:31:47.729Z",
        "scopes": [
            "api"
        ],
        "user_id": 8,
        "last_used_at": "2022-05-18T17:58:37.550Z",
        "active": false,
        "expires_at": null
    }
]

You can filter by merged attributes with:

GET /personal_access_tokens?revoked=true&created_before=2022-01-01

Get single personal access token

Get a personal access token by either:

• Using the ID of the personal access token.
• Passing it to the API in a header.

Using a personal access token ID

Introduced in GitLab 15.1.

Get a single personal access token by its ID. Users can get their own tokens. Administrators can get any token.

GET /personal_access_tokens/:id

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer/string	yes	ID of personal access token

curl --request GET --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/personal_access_tokens/<id>"

Responses

404 HTTP status code introduced in GitLab 15.3.

• 401: Unauthorized if either:
  • The user doesn't have access to the token with the specified ID.
  • The token with the specified ID doesn't exist.
• 404: Not Found if the user is an administrator but the token with the specified ID doesn't exist.

Using a request header

Introduced in GitLab 15.5

Get a single personal access token by using passing the token in a header.

GET /personal_access_tokens/self

curl --request GET --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/personal_access_tokens/self"

Example response:

{
    "id": 4,
    "name": "Test Token",
    "revoked": false,
    "created_at": "2020-07-23T14:31:47.729Z",
    "scopes": [
        "api"
    ],
    "user_id": 3,
    "last_used_at": "2021-10-06T17:58:37.550Z",
    "active": true,
    "expires_at": null
}

Revoke a personal access token

Revoke a personal access token by either:

• Using the ID of the personal access token.
• Passing it to the API in a header.

Using a personal access token ID

• Introduced in GitLab 13.3.
• Moved from GitLab Ultimate to GitLab Free in 13.6.

Revoke a personal access token using its ID.

DELETE /personal_access_tokens/:id

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer/string	yes	ID of personal access token

NOTE: Non-administrators can revoke their own tokens. Administrators can revoke tokens of any user.

curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/personal_access_tokens/<personal_access_token_id>"

Responses

• 204: No Content if successfully revoked.
• 400: Bad Request if not revoked successfully.

Using a request header

• Introduced in GitLab 15.0. Limited to tokens with api scope.
• Introduced in GitLab 15.4, any token can use this endpoint.

Revokes a personal access token that is passed in using a request header. Requires:

• api scope in GitLab 15.0 to GitLab 15.3.
• Any scope in GitLab 15.4 and later.

DELETE /personal_access_tokens/self

curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/personal_access_tokens/self"

Responses

• 204: No Content if successfully revoked.
• 400: Bad Request if not revoked successfully.

Create a personal access token (administrator only)

See the Users API documentation for information on creating a personal access token.