I tried list env vars api https://circleci.com/docs/api/#list-environment-variables to list env “names” and “values” of my env vars in circle ci project. But it’s hidden in API response eg: “xxxx1011” , how can I utilize such value in my code as it wouldn’t understand “xxxx” ? Is there a way to get …

Hi there, welcome to our community! There is no way to do this, for security reasons the API is implemented in a way where you cannot read out environment variable values. Could you share more about what you are trying to accomplish here?

Hi @levlaz thanks for the reply. There are few tokens that I want to utilize for making API calls but I don’t want to expose these tokens so I embed/store them as project specific environment variables . Now using Circle CI APIs I’m trying to fetch these vars and their respective values to use them …

Environment variables are exposed as a part of the build, you don’t need to use the api to get them. If you need to share secrets across builds then you should use “contexts”.

ok, I can embed my environment vars in Context then but I would also require to update one of the vars periodically and I see that update won’t be possible in this case . And from here you stated: Updating context environment variables during build? . Hence, my idea was to Get env vars for project sp…

“xxxx” is the “hidden value”, there is no way to read the secret via the API.

It should probably be renamed to “obfuscated” value in the docs, because “hidden” is a bit misleading.

yea its quite contradictory to what docs says. But it still makes me wonder-what’s the purpose of having this API when they can’t retrieve the secrets.

I don’t disagree with you, the docs are a bit confusing. Although, the purpose of this endpoint from what I know is. Check to see if an env var is set. Compare the ending to see if the env var is correct.

I would love to be able to see and add variables on my context via the app, please add this feature

This sounds like a massive security risk, and I doubt it would ever be implemented.

How to see full value of environment variables via circle CI APIs?

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levlaz April 22, 2019, 6:23pm 9

I don’t disagree with you, the docs are a bit confusing.

Although, the purpose of this endpoint from what I know is.

Check to see if an env var is set.
Compare the ending to see if the env var is correct.

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