diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 9cac766480fb82390ad5057042b789f1b8409a04..9c9dbecc31dc454483329bcd06b76f2b1c7f1a12 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ format_json:
   image: alpine:latest
   before_script:
     - apk add --no-cache jq git
+    - git remote remove origin
+    - git remote add origin https://oauth2:$OAUTH_TOKEN@$CI_SERVER_HOST/$CI_PROJECT_PATH.git
   script:
     - echo "Current branch:" $CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME
     - for file in Notebooks/*.ipynb; do jq --indent 1 . "$file" > tmp && mv tmp "$file"; done