summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/api/README.md
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/api/README.md')
-rw-r--r--doc/api/README.md20
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/README.md b/doc/api/README.md
index fd5e88cb9d5..d481d0699e7 100644
--- a/doc/api/README.md
+++ b/doc/api/README.md
@@ -194,13 +194,13 @@ You can use a [personal access token][pat] to authenticate with the API by passi
Example of using the personal access token in a parameter:
```shell
-curl https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects?private_token=9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK
+curl https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects?private_token=<your_access_token>
```
Example of using the personal access token in a header:
```shell
-curl --header "Private-Token: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects
+curl --header "Private-Token: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects
```
Read more about [personal access tokens][pat].
@@ -319,22 +319,22 @@ Example of a valid API call and a request using cURL with sudo request,
providing a username:
```
-GET /projects?private_token=9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK&sudo=username
+GET /projects?private_token=<your_access_token>&sudo=username
```
```shell
-curl --header "Private-Token: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" --header "Sudo: username" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects"
+curl --header "Private-Token: <your_access_token>" --header "Sudo: username" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects"
```
Example of a valid API call and a request using cURL with sudo request,
providing an ID:
```
-GET /projects?private_token=9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK&sudo=23
+GET /projects?private_token=<your_access_token>&sudo=23
```
```shell
-curl --header "Private-Token: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" --header "Sudo: 23" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects"
+curl --header "Private-Token: <your_access_token>" --header "Sudo: 23" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects"
```
## Status codes
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ resources you can pass the following parameters:
In the example below, we list 50 [namespaces](namespaces.md) per page.
```bash
-curl --request PUT --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/namespaces?per_page=50
+curl --request PUT --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/namespaces?per_page=50
```
### Pagination Link header
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ and we request the second page (`page=2`) of [comments](notes.md) of the issue
with ID `8` which belongs to the project with ID `8`:
```bash
-curl --head --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/8/issues/8/notes?per_page=3&page=2
+curl --head --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/8/issues/8/notes?per_page=3&page=2
```
The response will then be:
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ We can call the API with `array` and `hash` types parameters as shown below:
`import_sources` is a parameter of type `array`:
```bash
-curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" \
+curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" \
-d "import_sources[]=github" \
-d "import_sources[]=bitbucket" \
"https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/some_endpoint
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" \
`override_params` is a parameter of type `hash`:
```bash
-curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" \
+curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" \
--form "namespace=email" \
--form "path=impapi" \
--form "file=@/path/to/somefile.txt"