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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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| 
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| # Gitea API Usage
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| 
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| ## Enabling/configuring API access
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| 
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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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| 
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| ## Authentication via the API
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| 
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| Gitea supports these methods of API authentication:
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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| ### More on the `Authorization:` header
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| 
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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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| ```
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| Authorization: token 65eaa9c8ef52460d22a93307fe0aee76289dc675
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| ```
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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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| ```
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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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| 
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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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| 
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| ## Listing your issued tokens via the API
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| 
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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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| 
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| ### Using basic authentication:
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| 
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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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| 
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| ## Sudo
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| 
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| The API allows admin users to sudo API requests as another user. Simply add either a `sudo=` parameter or `Sudo:` request header with the username of the user to sudo.
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