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* add api user guides in doc * update user-guides api page * fix typo: user guides -> user guide * move api-usage page under advanced category * flesh out API usage docs * Build on work by @tungsheng * Address issues raised in #4037, #3673, and #4243 * Close #4247 Signed-off-by: Steve Traugott <stevegt@t7a.org>
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date: "2018-06-24:00:00+02:00"
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title: "API Usage"
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slug: "api-usage"
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weight: 40
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toc: true
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draft: false
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menu:
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sidebar:
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parent: "advanced"
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name: "API Usage"
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weight: 40
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identifier: "api-usage"
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---
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# Gitea API Usage
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## Enabling/configuring API access
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By default, `ENABLE_SWAGGER_ENDPOINT` is true, and
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`MAX_RESPONSE_ITEMS` is set to 50. See [Config Cheat
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Sheet](https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/config-cheat-sheet/) for more
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information.
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## Authentication via the API
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Gitea supports these methods of API authentication:
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- HTTP basic authentication
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- `token=...` parameter in URL query string
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- `access_token=...` parameter in URL query string
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- `Authorization: token ...` header in HTTP headers
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All of these methods accept the same apiKey token type. You can
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better understand this by looking at the code -- as of this writing,
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Gitea parses queries and headers to find the token in
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[modules/auth/auth.go](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/6efdcaed86565c91a3dc77631372a9cc45a58e89/modules/auth/auth.go#L47).
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You can create an apiKey token via your gitea install's web interface:
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`Settings | Applications | Generate New Token`.
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### More on the `Authorization:` header
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For historical reasons, Gitea needs the word `token` included before
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the apiKey token in an authorization header, like this:
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```
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Authorization: token 65eaa9c8ef52460d22a93307fe0aee76289dc675
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```
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In a `curl` command, for instance, this would look like:
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```
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curl -X POST "http://localhost:4000/api/v1/repos/test1/test1/issues" \
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-H "accept: application/json" \
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-H "Authorization: token 65eaa9c8ef52460d22a93307fe0aee76289dc675" \
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-H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{ \"body\": \"testing\", \"title\": \"test 20\"}" -i
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```
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As mentioned above, the token used is the same one you would use in
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the `token=` string in a GET request.
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## Listing your issued tokens via the API
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As mentioned in
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[#3842](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/3842#issuecomment-397743346),
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`/users/:name/tokens` is special and requires you to authenticate
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using BasicAuth, as follows:
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### Using basic authentication:
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```
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$ curl --request GET --url https://yourusername:yourpassword@gitea.your.host/api/v1/users/yourusername/tokens
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[{"name":"test","sha1":"..."},{"name":"dev","sha1":"..."}]
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```
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