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What You'll Need

CredentialDescription
TokenPersonal access token with API scope
Base URLhttps://gitlab.com or your self-hosted GitLab URL

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Overview

Connect to GitLab for comprehensive DevOps and repository data.

Code & MRs

Projects, merge requests, commits

Issues & Planning

Issues, milestones, labels

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Prerequisites

Administrator access required. You need privileges in to complete this setup.If you don’t have admin access, contact your administrator to:
  • Create the API credentials on your behalf, OR
  • Grant you temporary admin access to complete the setup
  • Owner or Maintainer role in the group/project
  • For group-level access, group owner permissions

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Setup Guide

1

Access User Settings

  1. Log in to GitLab (gitlab.com or your instance)
  2. Click your avatar → Preferences
  3. Navigate to Access Tokens in the sidebar
2

Create Personal Access Token

  1. Click Add new token
  2. Fill in:
FieldValue
Token nameParable Integration
Expiration date1 year (or per policy)
3

Select Scopes

Enable these scopes:
ScopePurpose
apiFull API access
read_apiRead-only API (alternative)
read_userRead user information
read_repositoryRead repository contents
For read-only integration, use read_api instead of api.
4

Create and Copy Token

  1. Click Create personal access token
  2. Copy the token immediately
Copy your now!This is the only time it will be displayed. Store it in a secure password manager before closing this page.