Using API to see context details for jobs and secrets

API
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Hello,

I looked over at the api CircleCI API, and wanted to check in here how I could get these pieces of information

  • The masked secrets pertaining to a context (as if I invited the context page)
  • What contexts a repo is using (and in what job)
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Hi @JeaneCA,

Regarding your first question, there is no public-facing REST API endpoint to get a list of masked secret values for a particular context. It is possible to get a list of the names of the variables in a specific context with the following endpoint:

https://circleci.com/docs/api/v2/#operation/listEnvironmentVariablesFromContext

If you would like to get a list of the unmasked values, you can rerun a job with ssh and use a command like env to print them in plaintext. You could also add a step to echo the variables to a file and then upload that as an artifact (which can then be downloaded in the UI via our API).

For your second question, it is not directly possible to get a list of contexts used in a project. However you can get the contexts used in a specific job with the following endpoint:

https://circleci.com/docs/api/v2/#operation/getJobDetails

You could then loop through the jobs in a project to get a list of contexts used overall.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions!

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Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying what y’all have.

I feel like having a job to output secrets sounds hacky/unsecure. We like that the API can show us project secrets masked, we’d like to have a feature request that y’all also do the same for context API one day.

Best,
Jeane

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@JeaneCA I agree that our API could be more versatile, and if you would like to submit a feature request you can do so on the following page:

Thanks!