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diff --git a/doc/api/index.md b/doc/api/index.md index d9b7afc2dc8..4048a27b81f 100644 --- a/doc/api/index.md +++ b/doc/api/index.md @@ -166,6 +166,11 @@ curl --header "Authorization: Bearer OAUTH-TOKEN" "https://gitlab.example.com/ap Read more about [GitLab as an OAuth2 provider](oauth2.md). +NOTE: +We recommend that OAuth access tokens have an expiration. You can use a `refresh_token` to refresh tokens. Integrations may need to be updated to refresh tokens prior to expiration, which is based on the [expires_in](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749#appendix-A.14) property in the token endpoint response. + +A default refresh setting of two hours is tracked in [this issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/336598). + ### Personal/project access tokens You can use access tokens to authenticate with the API by passing it in either |