CircleCI Self-Hosted Runner API
The CircleCI Self-Hosted Runner API enables management and execution of jobs on self-hosted runner infrastructure. It provides endpoints for listing available runners, managing runner tasks, and querying resource classes. The API is hosted separately from the main CircleCI API at runner.circleci.com and supports multiple authentication methods depending on the endpoint. Developers can use this API to integrate self-hosted runner management into their infrastructure automation workflows.
CircleCI Self-Hosted Runner API is one of 18 APIs that CircleCI publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include CI/CD, Infrastructure, Runners, and Self-Hosted. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 2 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.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
CircleCI Self-Hosted Runner 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 1
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Endpoints for listing and querying self-hosted runners and their status within a namespace or resource class.
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Runner (10 properties), ErrorResponse (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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