Script for obtaining Gitlab API Personal Access Token

personal_access_token.py

#!/usr/bin/python3
"""
Script that creates Personal Access Token for Gitlab API;
Tested with:
- Gitlab Community Edition 10.1.4
- Gitlab Enterprise Edition 12.6.2
- Gitlab Enterprise Edition 13.4.4
"""
import sys
import requests
from urllib.parse import urljoin
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

endpoint = "http://localhost:10080"
root_route = urljoin(endpoint, "/")
sign_in_route = urljoin(endpoint, "/users/sign_in")
pat_route = urljoin(endpoint, "/profile/personal_access_tokens")

login = "root"
password = "password"


def find_csrf_token(text):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(text, "lxml")
    token = soup.find(attrs={"name": "csrf-token"})
    param = soup.find(attrs={"name": "csrf-param"})
    data = {param.get("content"): token.get("content")}
    return data


def obtain_csrf_token():
    r = requests.get(root_route)
    token = find_csrf_token(r.text)
    return token, r.cookies


def sign_in(csrf, cookies):
    data = {
        "user[login]": login,
        "user[password]": password,
        "user[remember_me]": 0,
        "utf8": "✓"
    }
    data.update(csrf)
    r = requests.post(sign_in_route, data=data, cookies=cookies)
    token = find_csrf_token(r.text)
    return token, r.history[0].cookies


def obtain_personal_access_token(name, expires_at, csrf, cookies):
    data = {
        "personal_access_token[expires_at]": expires_at,
        "personal_access_token[name]": name,
        "personal_access_token[scopes][]": "api",
        "utf8": "✓"
    }
    data.update(csrf)
    r = requests.post(pat_route, data=data, cookies=cookies)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "lxml")
    token = soup.find('input', id='created-personal-access-token').get('value')
    return token


def main():
    csrf1, cookies1 = obtain_csrf_token()
    print("root", csrf1, cookies1)
    csrf2, cookies2 = sign_in(csrf1, cookies1)
    print("sign_in", csrf2, cookies2)

    name = sys.argv[1]
    expires_at = sys.argv[2]
    token = obtain_personal_access_token(name, expires_at, csrf2, cookies2)
    print(token)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

I still have the same error, @MiVents

data = {param.get("content"): token.get("content")} AttributeError: 'NoneType object has no attribute' get'

Hi guys, thank you for discussion. I see that the problem is still relevant in more recent versions of Gitlab, so I decided to create a full-fledged repository to give developers opportunity to contribute and maintain newer versions of this script. I think that we need to develop a little library that will provide simple API to obtain tokens.

https://github.com/vitalyisaev2/gitlab_token

If anybody wants to be a maintainer, please drop me a line.