Login user via api and get token

API/SDK/Tea/HelmChart/Terraform
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I am trying to use gitea as a backend system, and as such want to login with username and password via the api and then use a token for any further api requests

I must be blind - I just can’t see any documented api for login. I see that there is a “basic” auth but I don’t want to use that in case the headers get logged.

The login POST’s to /user/login - I have tried that, but no token is returned

any insight would be appreciated :wink:

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Here is the documentation on creating a token: https://try.gitea.io/api/swagger#/user/userCreateToken you must use username/pass via basic auth on that endpoint. Once you have a token you can use it an all other endpoints.

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I can’t execute it on Gitea 1.7.4

Using Swagger UI I try to create a token for an existing user:

username = alice
password = 123456

Basic authorization: Done

Execute for ‘alice’ now:

curl -X POST "https://localhost:3000/api/v1/users/alice/tokens" -H "accept: application/json" -H "authorization: Basic bmlrb2xheToxMjM0NTY=" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{ \"name\": \"token_name\"}"

Server response:

Code: 401 Error: Unauthorized

I tried Basic auth as an administrator but got the same error.

What did I miss here? :slightly_frowning_face:

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Seems, it’s works only as:

curl -X POST "https://alice:123456@localhost:3000/api/v1/users/alice/tokens" -H  "accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{  
	\"name\": \"token_name\"
}"

Executed it via console.

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Came across this and one reason could be that
your curl example has username “nikolay” and not “alice” inside the basic auth string.

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