GitBook SSO API

Tie GitBook into your corporate identity management and authentication providers (like SAML or OAuth). This centralizes user authentication and improves security. {% openapi-schemas spec="gitbook" schemas="Subdomain" grouped="false" %} The Subdomain object {% endopenapi-schemas %}

Operations 6

GET /orgs/{organizationId}/saml List all SAML providers #
POST /orgs/{organizationId}/saml Create a new SAML provider #
GET /orgs/{organizationId}/saml/{samlProviderId} Get a SAML provider by its ID #
PATCH /orgs/{organizationId}/saml/{samlProviderId} Update a SAML provider #
DELETE /orgs/{organizationId}/saml/{samlProviderId} Delete a SAML provider #
GET /orgs/{organizationId}/sso List all SSO provider login infos #

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OpenAPI Specification

gitbook-sso-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: GitBook SSO API
  description: The GitBook API
  termsOfService: https://policies.gitbook.com
  contact:
    name: API Support
    url: https://gitbook.com/support
    email: support@gitbook.com
  version: 0.0.1-beta
servers:
- url: '{host}/v1'
  variables:
    host:
      default: https://api.gitbook.com
security:
- user: []
- user-internal: []
- user-staff: []
- integration: []
- integration-installation: []
tags:
- name: SSO
  x-page-icon: lock
  x-page-title: SSO
  x-page-description: Configure Single Sign-On solutions to unify your organization's authentication.
  description: 'Tie GitBook into your corporate identity management and authentication providers (like SAML or OAuth). This centralizes user authentication and improves security.


    {% openapi-schemas spec="gitbook" schemas="Subdomain" grouped="false" %}

    The Subdomain object

    {% endopenapi-schemas %}'
paths:
  /orgs/{organizationId}/saml:
    get:
      operationId: listSAMLProvidersInOrganizationById
      summary: List all SAML providers
      description: Lists SAML providers configured for the specified organization.
      tags:
      - SSO
      security:
      - user: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/organizationId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/listPage'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/listLimit'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                allOf:
                - $ref: '#/components/schemas/List'
                - type: object
                  required:
                  - items
                  properties:
                    items:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationSAMLProvider'
    post:
      operationId: createOrganizationSAMLProvider
      summary: Create a new SAML provider
      tags:
      - SSO
      security:
      - user: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/organizationId'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                label:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderLabel'
                entityID:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderEntityID'
                certificate:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderCertificate'
                ssoURL:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/URL'
                defaultTeam:
                  type: string
                defaultRole:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/MemberRoleOrGuest'
              required:
              - label
      responses:
        '201':
          description: SAML Provider created
          headers:
            Location:
              description: API URL for the newly created SAML Provider
              schema:
                type: string
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationSAMLProvider'
  /orgs/{organizationId}/saml/{samlProviderId}:
    get:
      operationId: getOrganizationSAMLProviderById
      summary: Get a SAML provider by its ID
      tags:
      - SSO
      security:
      - user: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/organizationId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/samlProviderId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationSAMLProvider'
        '404':
          description: No matching provider found
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFoundError'
    patch:
      operationId: updateOrganizationSAMLProvider
      summary: Update a SAML provider
      tags:
      - SSO
      security:
      - user: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/organizationId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/samlProviderId'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                label:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderLabel'
                entityID:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderEntityID'
                certificate:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderCertificate'
                ssoURL:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/URL'
                defaultTeam:
                  type: string
                defaultRole:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/MemberRoleOrGuest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: SAML provider has been updated
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationSAMLProvider'
    delete:
      operationId: deleteOrganizationSAMLProvider
      summary: Delete a SAML provider
      tags:
      - SSO
      security:
      - user: []
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/organizationId'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/samlProviderId'
      responses:
        '204':
          description: SAML provider did not exist
        '205':
          description: SAML provider has been deleted
  /orgs/{organizationId}/sso:
    get:
      operationId: listSSOProviderLoginsInOrganization
      summary: List all SSO provider login infos
      tags:
      - SSO
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/organizationId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                - items
                properties:
                  items:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationSSOProviderLogin'
components:
  schemas:
    MemberRoleOrGuest:
      description: The role of a member in an organization, null for guests
      oneOf:
      - $ref: '#/components/schemas/MemberRole'
      - type: 'null'
    OrganizationTeam:
      type: object
      properties:
        object:
          type: string
          description: Type of Object, always equals to "team"
          enum:
          - team
        id:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier for the team.
        title:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationTeamTitle'
        members:
          type: integer
          description: Count of members in this team.
        spaces:
          type: number
          description: Count of spaces this team has access to.
        createdAt:
          description: Date at which the team was created.
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Timestamp'
        permissions:
          type: object
          description: The set of permissions for the team
          properties:
            admin:
              type: boolean
              description: Can the user manage the team
            view:
              type: boolean
              description: Can the user view the team and list its members
          required:
          - admin
          - view
      required:
      - object
      - id
      - title
      - members
      - spaces
      - createdAt
      - permissions
    MemberRole:
      type: string
      description: '"The role of a member in an organization.

        "admin": Can administrate the content: create, delete spaces, ...

        "create": Can create content.

        "review": Can review content.

        "edit": Can edit the content (live or change requests).

        "comment": Can access the content and its discussions.

        "read": Can access the content, but cannot update it in any way.

        '
      enum:
      - admin
      - create
      - edit
      - review
      - comment
      - read
    OrganizationTeamTitle:
      type: string
      description: Title of the team
      minLength: 1
      maxLength: 64
    OrganizationSAMLProvider:
      type: object
      properties:
        object:
          type: string
          description: Type of Object, always equals to "saml-provider"
          enum:
          - saml-provider
        id:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier for the provider.
        label:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderLabel'
        ssoURL:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/URL'
        entityID:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderEntityID'
        certificate:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderCertificate'
        defaultTeam:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationTeam'
        defaultRole:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/MemberRoleOrGuest'
        createdAt:
          description: Date at which the provider was created.
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Timestamp'
        status:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderStatus'
        service:
          description: Metadata about the service provider.
          properties:
            acsURL:
              type: string
              description: Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL
              format: uri
            startURL:
              type: string
              description: Start URL for the Identity Provider
              format: uri
            entityID:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderEntityID'
          required:
          - acsURL
          - startURL
          - entityID
        urls:
          type: object
          description: URLs associated with the object
          properties:
            location:
              type: string
              description: URL of the SAML Provider in the API
              format: uri
          required:
          - location
      required:
      - object
      - id
      - label
      - ssoURL
      - entityID
      - certificate
      - defaultRole
      - createdAt
      - status
      - service
      - urls
    Timestamp:
      type: string
      format: date-time
    SAMLProviderEntityID:
      type: string
      maxLength: 1024
    EntityId:
      type: string
      pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$
      description: A unique entity identifier
    SAMLProviderStatus:
      type: string
      description: 'Status of the provider.

        - `active`: The provider is active and can be used to authenticate users.

        - `pending`: The provider is pending and is not yet fully configured.

        '
      enum:
      - active
      - pending
    SAMLProviderCertificate:
      type: string
      maxLength: 10000
    SAMLProviderLabel:
      type: string
      minLength: 1
      maxLength: 30
    List:
      type: object
      properties:
        next:
          type: object
          properties:
            page:
              type: string
              description: Unique identifier to query the next results page
          required:
          - page
        count:
          type: number
          description: Total count of objects in the list
    OrganizationSSOProviderLogin:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Unique identifier for the provider.
        label:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/SAMLProviderLabel'
        startURL:
          type: string
          description: The starting login URL for the Identity Provider
          format: uri
      required:
      - id
      - label
      - startURL
    URL:
      type: string
      format: uri
      maxLength: 2048
  parameters:
    samlProviderId:
      name: samlProviderId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The unique id of the SAML provider
      schema:
        type: string
    listLimit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      description: The number of results per page
      schema:
        type: number
        minimum: 0
        maximum: 1000
    listPage:
      name: page
      in: query
      description: Identifier of the page results to fetch.
      schema:
        type: string
    organizationId:
      name: organizationId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The unique id of the organization
      schema:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/EntityId'
  responses:
    NotFoundError:
      description: Not Found
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
            required:
            - error
            properties:
              error:
                type: object
                properties:
                  code:
                    type: integer
                    format: int32
                    enum:
                    - 404
                  message:
                    type: string
                required:
                - code
                - message
  securitySchemes:
    user:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
    user-internal:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
    user-staff:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
    integration:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
    integration-installation:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
    oauth:
      type: oauth2
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://oauth.gitbook.com/authorize
          tokenUrl: https://oauth.gitbook.com/token
          scopes:
            user:read: Read your GitBook user profile.
            organization:read: Read the organizations you belong to, their settings and metadata, and their AI agent conversations.
            organization:write: Create organizations, and update organization settings and AI agent conversations.
            organization:members:read: Read organization members, teams, invites and link invites.
            organization:members:write: Manage organization members, teams, invites and link invites.
            organization:ask: Ask AI questions across an organization's content.
            organization:search: Search across an organization's content.
            space:read: Read spaces and their content, including pages, change requests and their reviews, comments, files and revision history.
            space:write: Create, update and delete spaces and their content, including change requests (create, edit, review), comments, and content imports and exports. Merging a change request also requires change-request:merge.
            space:permissions:read: Read the users and teams who have access to spaces and collections.
            space:permissions:write: Manage who has access to spaces and collections, including inviting users and teams.
            change-request:merge: Merge change requests, publishing their changes to the space. Creating, editing and reviewing change requests only requires space:write.
            site:read: Read sites and their settings, including navigation structure, linked spaces, customization, redirects, topics, AI configuration and documentation issues.
            site:write: Create, update and delete sites and their settings, including navigation structure (sections, linked spaces, external links), customization, redirects, topics and AI configuration.
            site:publish: Publish and unpublish sites, controlling their public exposure.
            site:permissions:read: Read the users and teams who have access to sites.
            site:permissions:write: Manage who has access to sites, including inviting users and teams.
            site:auth:read: Read how visitors authenticate on a site and its security configuration, including private share links.
            site:auth:write: Manage how visitors authenticate on a site and its security configuration, including private share links.
            site:insights:read: Read site analytics and insights, including the questions visitors asked Ask AI and the answers they received.
            site:ask: Ask AI questions across a site's content.
            site:search: Search across a site's content.
            integration:read: Read integrations, their status and where they are installed.
            integration:installations:read: Read integration installations and their configuration, which can include credentials for third-party services.
            integration:installations:write: Install and configure integrations on an organization, its spaces and its sites.
            integration:publish: Publish integrations, which can request their own permissions on your content, and route their events to a development tunnel.
            integration:delete: Unpublish integrations, permanently deleting them and every installation of them.
            openapi:read: Read OpenAPI specifications.
            openapi:write: Create, update and delete OpenAPI specifications.
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  publisher: GitBook
  source: https://api.gitbook.com/openapi.json
  note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
    stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)