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CircleCI Pipeline API

Endpoints for triggering, retrieving, and managing pipelines and their configurations.

CircleCI Pipeline API is one of 18 APIs that CircleCI publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Pipeline. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 8 operations across 7 paths, and defines 9 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://circleci.com/api/v1.1.

8 operations 7 paths 9 schemas 6 GET2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.1
Base URL
https://circleci.com/api/v2
Authentication
API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

CircleCI Pipeline API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the header as Circle-Token (apiToken). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • apiToken — Personal API token for authenticating with the CircleCI API. Can also be passed as a query parameter.

Paths & Operations 8

Across 7 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 6 GET, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Pipeline 8

Endpoints for triggering, retrieving, and managing pipelines and their configurations.

GET
/pipeline
List pipelines
listPipelines 3 params → 200401
POST
/pipeline/continue
Continue a pipeline
continuePipeline body → 200400
GET
/pipeline/{pipeline-id}
Get a pipeline by ID
getPipeline 1 param → 200401404
GET
/pipeline/{pipeline-id}/config
Get a pipeline's configuration
getPipelineConfig 1 param → 200401
GET
/pipeline/{pipeline-id}/workflow
List workflows for a pipeline
listPipelineWorkflows 2 params → 200401
GET
/project/{project-slug}/pipeline
List project pipelines
listProjectPipelines 3 params → 200401
POST
/project/{project-slug}/pipeline
Trigger a pipeline
triggerPipeline 1 param body → 201400401
GET
/project/{project-slug}/pipeline/mine
List my project pipelines
listMyProjectPipelines 2 params → 200401

Schemas 9

The contract defines 9 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Pipeline (9 properties), Workflow (9 properties), PipelineConfig (4 properties), PipelineCreation (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Pipeline
object
9 properties
MessageResponse
object
1 property
PipelineConfig
object
4 properties
TriggerPipelineRequest
object
3 properties
PipelineCreation
object
4 properties
ErrorResponse
object
1 property
PipelineList
object
2 properties
Workflow
object
9 properties
WorkflowList
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

circleci-pipeline-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs CircleCI publishes across the network.

CircleCI Self-Hosted Runner API
CircleCI Webhooks
CircleCI Orbs Registry
CircleCI Artifact API
CircleCI Build API
CircleCI Context API
CircleCI Insights API
CircleCI Job API
CircleCI Project API
CircleCI Resource Class API
CircleCI Runner Task API
CircleCI Schedule API
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