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 I know I can do so with user and password git clone https quot user quot quot password quot quot gitlaburl and I know it is possible with ssh key But both options are insufficient

You can use the runners token for CI CD Pipelines of your GitLab repo git clone https gitlab-ci-token lt runners token gt git example com myuser myrepo git Where lt runners token gt can be obtained from git example com myuser myrepo pipelines settings or by clicking on the Settings icon - gt CI CD Pipeline and look for Runners Token on the page Screenshot of the runners token location

The gitlab has a lot of tokens Private token Personal Access Token CI CD running token I tested only the Personal Access Token using GitLab Community Edition 10 1 2 the example git clone https gitlab-ci-token Personal Access Tokens gitlab com username myrepo git git clone https oauth2 Personal Access Tokens gitlab com username myrepo git or using username and password git clone https username password gitlab com username myrepo git or by input your password git clone https username gitlab com username myrepo git But the private token seems can not work

Currently the only way I ve found is with Deploy Tokens

As of 8 12 cloning using HTTPS runner token is not supported anymore as mentioned here In 8 12 we improved build permissions Being able to clone project using runners token it is no supported from now on it was actually working by coincidence and was never a fully fledged feature so we changed that in 8 12 You should use build token instead This is widely documented here - https docs gitlab com ce user project new ci build permissions model html

I know this is old but this is how you do it git clone https oauth2 ACCESS TOKEN somegitlab com vendor package git

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

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 quot token quot password is ephemeral token it should be revoked after a build is complete

Customising the URL is not needed Just use a git configuration for gitlab tokens such as git config --global gitlab accesstoken TOKEN VALUE extended description here

One possible way is using a deploy token https docs gitlab com ee user project deploy tokens After creating the token use git clone https lt username gt lt deploy token gt gitlab example com tanuki awesome project git as mentioned in the link above

[gitlab] Using GitLab token to clone without authentication

Use the token instead of the password (the token needs to have "api" scope for clone to be allowed):

git clone https://username:[email protected]/user/repo.git

Tested against 11.0.0-ee.

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