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GitGuardian API

With GitGuardian API, manage your dashboard data & utilize our secrets detection engine. Enables custom reports, programmatic incident management & easy integration into your existing services.

Get started with the GitGuardian API

Authenticate API requests

Learn how to authenticate API requests using an API key (service account or personal access token).

Create and manage service accounts

Create and manage service accounts for API access. Service accounts represent non-human users for authentication and authorization, for secrets scanning in CI pipelines or batch processing open incidents.

Create and manage personal access tokens

Create and manage personal access tokens for API access. They are used by devs on their local workstations to scan for secrets using GitGuardian CLI (ggshield) in pre-commit or pre-push git hooks.

Usage of the GitGuardian API

Usage and quotas

Study the usage quotas for GitGuardian API. Check your quota usage, and see what happens when you exceed your quota.

API reference

Get detailed information on GitGuardian API endpoints, including how to use them, what parameters are required, and what responses to expect.