Introduction

The GitGuardian API gives you full creative control to manage your dashboard data and also to use GitGuardian secrets detection engine, whether through ggshield or in a custom way. All API calls need to be authenticated.

Use cases

• Export your incidents to build custom reports.
• Manage your incidents programmatically.
• Perform your users and teams management programmatically.
• Plug GitGuardian easily into your existing services.
• Build your own integration for secrets detection.
• You want to use ggshield to shift left.

Considerations

• The GitGuardian API is versioned.
• All requests to the GitGuardian API must be authenticated.
• The GitGuardian API enforces rate limits on all requests.

Limitations

• Only secret incidents are available through the API.

Start to use the API by creating your API key ->