# List where a secret was found

> List every place a secret was found: file, line, commit and whether a push or the history scan found it.

<div class="g1t-endpoint"><span class="g1t-method" data-method="get">GET</span><code>/repos/{owner}/{name}/secret-scanning/alerts/{id}/locations</code></div>

- **Authentication:** Required. Send an [access token](/reference/api/#authentication) as `Authorization: Bearer`.
- **MCP tool:** [`security`](/reference/mcp/#security) with `action` `secret_locations`, and the same inputs
- **Scope:** An access token needs [`security:read`](/guides/authentication/#scopes).

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `owner` | string | Yes | The workspace that owns the repository. |
| `name` | string | Yes | The repository's name. |
| `id` | string | Yes | The alert's id: sec_… |

## Example request

```sh
curl https://api.g1t.sh/repos/flagon-io/hello/secret-scanning/alerts/sec_01kq2m7d4e5f6g7h8j9k0m1n2p/locations \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $G1T_TOKEN"
```

## Example response

A successful request answers `200` with:

```json
[
  {
    "path": "scripts/release.sh",
    "line": 12,
    "commit": "4807077b296e6edbf410d55e72749d3e1170c291",
    "source": "push",
    "found_at": "2026-10-06T09:14:02.118Z"
  }
]
```

## Errors

A failed request answers with one of these statuses and a body like `{"error": {"code": "not_found", "message": "Repository not found."}}`. See [errors](/reference/api/#errors).

| Status | Code | When |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 401 | `unauthenticated` | A token is required, or the one sent is not valid. |
| 403 | `forbidden` | The token is valid but not allowed to do this, such as a member-only change or an agent token outside its repository. |
| 404 | `not_found` | It does not exist, or you cannot see it. |
| 422 | `invalid` | The input is not valid. `message` says which field and why. |