Environment Variables

All environment variables recognized by outline-cli.

Variable	Config Key	Description
`OUTLINE_SERVER_URL`	`server_url`	Outline server base URL
`OUTLINE_AUTH_METHOD`	`auth_method`	Auth method: api_token, oidc, basic
`OUTLINE_TOKEN_STORAGE`	`token_storage`	Secret storage backend: keyring, file
`OUTLINE_OIDC_PORT`	`oidc_port`	Local port for OIDC callback
`OUTLINE_API_TOKEN`	`api_token`	API bearer token
`OUTLINE_PASSWORD`	`password`	Basic auth password
`OUTLINE_USERNAME`	`username`	Basic auth username
`OUTLINE_OIDC_ACCESS_TOKEN`	`oidc_access_token`	OIDC access token (set by auth oidc-login)

Priority

CLI flags > Environment variables > OS keyring > Config file

Only two variables are needed:

export OUTLINE_SERVER_URL=https://outline.example.com
export OUTLINE_API_TOKEN=sk-your-token
outline push --collection-id "Docs" --path ./docs/