using gitlab token to clone without authentication

Question

I want to clone gitlab repository without prompt for my automation script, by using my private token from my gitlab account.

Can someone provide me a sample?

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Answer 1

Customising the URL is not needed. Just use a git configuration for gitlab tokens such as

git config --global gitlab.accesstoken {TOKEN_VALUE}

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Answer 2

I know this is old but this is how you do it:

git clone https://oauth2:ACCESS_TOKEN@somegitlab.com/vendor/package.git

Answer 3

These days (Oct 2020) you can use just the following

git clone $CI_REPOSITORY_URL

Which will expand to something like:

git clone https://gitlab-ci-token:[MASKED]@gitlab.com/gitlab-examples/ci-debug-trace.git

Where the "token" password is ephemeral token, it should be revoked after a build is complete.

Answer 4

To make my future me happy: RTFM - don't use the gitlab-ci-token at all, but the .netrc file.

There are a couple of important points:

1. echo -e "machine gitlab.com\nlogin gitlab-ci-token\npassword ${CI_JOB_TOKEN}" > ~/.netrc
2. Don't forget to replace "gitlab.com" by your URL!
3. Don't try to be smart and create the .netrc file directly - gitlab will not replace the $CI_JOB_TOKEN within the file!
4. Use https://gitlab.com/whatever/foobar.com - not ssh://git@foobar, not git+ssh://, not git+https://. You also don't need any CI-TOKEN stuff in the URL.
5. Make sure you can git clone [url from step 4]

Background: I got

fatal: could not read Username for 'https://gitlab.mycompany.com': No such device or address

when I tried to make Ansible + Gitlab + Docker work as I imagine it. Now it works.

Answer 5

You can use the runners token for CI/CD Pipelines of your GitLab repo.

git clone https://gitlab-ci-token:<runners token>@git.example.com/myuser/myrepo.git

Where <runners token> can be obtained from:

git.example.com/myuser/myrepo/pipelines/settings

or by clicking on the Settings icon -> CI/CD Pipeline and look for Runners Token on the page

Screenshot of the runners token location:

Answer 6

I went SSH using the per project deploy keys setting (read only)