CI_JOB_TOKEN 401 Not authorized inside a pipeline

GitLab CI/CD
1

I’m trying to fetch information about branches using this command inside a job:

curl -s --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $CI_JOB_TOKEN" "$GITLAB_API_URL/projects/$CI_PROJECT_ID/repository/commits/$CI_COMMIT_SHA/refs?type=all"

but it returns: {"message":"401 Unauthorized"}

Why is that? CI_JOB_TOKEN doesn’t have access to the project itself?

2

Hi,

Try putting JOB-TOKEN instead of PRIVATE-TOKEN to the header.

3

No, it didn’t work. Looks like JOB-TOKEN is not a thing.

But I accidentally figured out that $NPM_TOKEN worked out. I.e.:

curl -s --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: $NPM_TOKEN" "$GITLAB_API_URL/projects/$CI_PROJECT_ID/repository/commits/$CI_COMMIT_SHA/refs?type=all"

This is weird.