It should be a simple exercise, but in fact because of all the tokens it is not. There are few issues and I tried few variations, but to no avail. I am trying to trigger pipline and download artifacts of project A to pipeline that is running in project B and then use those artifacts to compile documentation.

Example I assembled based on documentation:

gl = gitlab.Gitlab('https://gitlab.melexis.com', job_token=os.environ['CI_JOB_TOKEN'])
project = gl.projects.get(project_id, lazy=True)
pipeline = project.trigger_pipeline('branchname', 'targetprojecttoken', variables={"VAR1": "True"})

# Start pipeline and wait for completion
while pipeline.finished_at is None:
    pipeline.refresh()
    time.sleep(1)

So, first problem was that I want to use CI_JOB_TOKEN to trigger the pipeline (not targetprojecttoken). This is something that can be done with curl, but here it does not work (tried with replacing targetprojecttoken with os.environ['CI_JOB_TOKEN'] but I get gitlab.exceptions.GitlabCreateError: 404: 404 Not Found).

Now for second more pressing issue here is that pipeline.refresh() returns gitlab.exceptions.GitlabGetError: 404: 404 Project Not Found although I confirmed that trigger_pipeline did trigger the pipeline.

Expected Behavior

• trigger_pipeline should work with job_token given to Gitlab object as based on https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/triggers/#ci-job-token
• pipeline.refresh() should refresh status or request token.

Actual Behavior

• trigger_pipeline works with targetprojecttoken instead of job_token
• pipeline.refresh() returns gitlab.exceptions.GitlabGetError: 404: 404 Project Not Found

Specifications

• python-gitlab version: 2.0.1
• API version you are using (v3/v4): v4
• Gitlab server version (or gitlab.com): private