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How to get User info from personal access token [message #1853182]

Wed, 22 June 2022 07:06

Mounika Mantri

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Registered: February 2022

Junior Member

Hi Team,

Is there any API which gives user info of gitlab/github by passing access token ?

Thanks,
Mounika.

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Re: How to get User info from personal access token [message #1853185 is a reply to message #1853182]

Wed, 22 June 2022 07:51

Thomas Wolf

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Registered: August 2016

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Please don't cross-post: https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1111027/

It's unclear what you are asking about. An API where? If you're looking for a GitHub/Gitlab API, check their API documentation.

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Re: How to get User info from personal access token [message #1853214 is a reply to message #1853185]

Thu, 23 June 2022 09:07

Mounika Mantri

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Registered: February 2022

Junior Member

Hi,

We have personal access token from github/gitlab, with that token we are able to perform actions like clone,commit,push,pull etc using JGIT.
We would like to access personal information like user id, email id for that personal access token. What is the api we need to use for getting this?

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Re: How to get User info from personal access token [message #1853216 is a reply to message #1853214]

Thu, 23 June 2022 09:42

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

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I think you are asking for something that's not possible and kind of nonsensical. The personal access token is like a password and your question is like asking "Given a github password, I'd like to find out for which account is that the password?"

Perhaps do some Googling and reading will help, e.g.,

https://www.edgoad.com/2021/02/using-personal-access-tokens-with-git-and-github.html

You must know the user ID to do anything with the PAT. Or are you asking how to find user.id/user.email information in the git config? That question has nothing to do with there being a PAT or not...

Ed Merks
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Re: How to get User info from personal access token [message #1853228 is a reply to message #1853214]

Thu, 23 June 2022 13:07

Cody Mikol

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Registered: December 2021

Junior Member

Hey, I think you actually want to generate an ssh key and add it to github. That will allow you to interact with github from your command line with no further configuration.

There is a pretty good guide here https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account

You might get a little flack from this community as its not affiliated with GitHub, but rather an implementation of the program git in java.

Good luck!

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Re: How to get User info from personal access token [message #1853256 is a reply to message #1853228]

Fri, 24 June 2022 10:45

Mounika Mantri

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Registered: February 2022

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Basically, I want to know user name and user email from git.
I have seen PersonIdent class by passing repo as input. But it is not giving me actual user name and email id.
Could you please help me

[Updated on: Fri, 24 June 2022 10:47]

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