GitLab

GitLab Projects API

The Projects API from GitLab — 17 operation(s) for projects.

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Software Construction Management BC-4200.40

Operations 83

POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/ai_agent/sessions Create an external agent session #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/ai_agent/sessions List external agent sessions for a project #
PATCH /api/v4/projects/{id}/ai_agent/sessions/{session_id} Complete or fail an external agent session #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/ai_agent/identities Register an external agent identity #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/ai_agent/audit_events Ingest external agent audit events #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/security_settings List all project security settings #
PUT /api/v4/projects/{id}/security_settings Update project security settings #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/terraform/state_protection_rules List all Terraform state protection rules for a project #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/terraform/state_protection_rules Create a Terraform state protection rule for a project #
PATCH /api/v4/projects/{id}/terraform/state_protection_rules/{terraform_state_protection_rule_id} Update a Terraform state protection rule for a project #
DELETE /api/v4/projects/{id}/terraform/state_protection_rules/{terraform_state_protection_rule_id} Delete a Terraform state protection rule #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/(-/)search Search a project #
GET /api/v4/users/{user_id}/projects List all personal projects for a user #
GET /api/v4/users/{user_id}/contributed_projects List all projects contributions for a user #
GET /api/v4/users/{user_id}/starred_projects List all projects starred by a user #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/restore Restore a project marked for deletion #
GET /api/v4/projects List all projects #
POST /api/v4/projects Create a project #
POST /api/v4/projects/user/{user_id} Create a project for a user #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/share_locations List all groups available to invite to a project #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id} Retrieve a project #
PUT /api/v4/projects/{id} Update a project #
DELETE /api/v4/projects/{id} Delete a project #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/fork Create a fork of a project #
DELETE /api/v4/projects/{id}/fork Delete a fork relationship #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/forks List all forks of a project #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/pages_access Verify Pages access to a project #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/archive Archive a project #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/unarchive Unarchive a project #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/star Star a project #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/unstar Unstar a project #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/starrers List all users who starred a project #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/languages Retrieve programming language usage information #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/fork/{forked_from_id} Create a fork relationship #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/share Share a project with a group #
DELETE /api/v4/projects/{id}/share/{group_id} Delete a shared project link in a group #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/import_project_members/{project_id} Import members #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/users List all members of a project #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/groups List all ancestor groups #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/invited_groups List all invited groups in a project #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/housekeeping Start the housekeeping task for a project #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/repository_size Start a task to recalculate repository size for a project #
PUT /api/v4/projects/{id}/transfer Transfer a project to another namespace #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/transfer_locations List all transferable namespaces for a project #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/storage Retrieve the path to repository storage #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/audit_events List all project audit events #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/audit_events/{audit_event_id} Retrieve a project audit event #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/statistics Retrieve the statistics of the last 30 days #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/packages/protection/rules List all package protection rules #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/packages/protection/rules Create a package protection rule #
PATCH /api/v4/projects/{id}/packages/protection/rules/{package_protection_rule_id} Update a package protection rule #
DELETE /api/v4/projects/{id}/packages/protection/rules/{package_protection_rule_id} Delete a package protection rule #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/registry/protection/tag/rules List all container registry protection tag rules #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/registry/protection/tag/rules Create a container registry protection tag rule #
PATCH /api/v4/projects/{id}/registry/protection/tag/rules/{protection_rule_id} Update a container registry protection tag rule #
DELETE /api/v4/projects/{id}/registry/protection/tag/rules/{protection_rule_id} Delete a container registry protection tag rule #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/registry/protection/repository/rules List all container repository protection rules #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/registry/protection/repository/rules Create a container repository protection rule #
PATCH /api/v4/projects/{id}/registry/protection/repository/rules/{protection_rule_id} Update a container repository protection rule #
DELETE /api/v4/projects/{id}/registry/protection/repository/rules/{protection_rule_id} Delete a container repository protection rule #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/create_ci_config Create a CI configuration merge request #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/uploads/authorize Workhorse authorize the file upload #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/uploads Create an upload #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/uploads List all uploads #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/uploads/{upload_id} Download an uploaded file by ID #
DELETE /api/v4/projects/{id}/uploads/{upload_id} Delete an uploaded file by ID #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/uploads/{secret}/{filename} Download an uploaded file by secret and filename #
DELETE /api/v4/projects/{id}/uploads/{secret}/{filename} Delete an uploaded file by secret and filename #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/issues List all project issues #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/issues Create an issue #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/issues_statistics Retrieve issues statistics for a project #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/issues/{issue_iid} Retrieve a project issue #
PUT /api/v4/projects/{id}/issues/{issue_iid} Update an issue #
DELETE /api/v4/projects/{id}/issues/{issue_iid} Delete an issue #
PUT /api/v4/projects/{id}/issues/{issue_iid}/reorder Update the order of an issue #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/issues/{issue_iid}/move Move an issue #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/issues/{issue_iid}/clone Clone an issue #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/issues/{issue_iid}/closed_by List all merge requests that close an issue on merge #
GET /api/v4/runners/{id}/projects Get projects associated with a runner #
GET /api/v4/projects/{id}/runners List all runners for a project #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/runners Assign a runner to a project #
DELETE /api/v4/projects/{id}/runners/{runner_id} Unassign a runner from a project #
POST /api/v4/projects/{id}/runners/reset_registration_token Reset the runner registration token for a project #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/groups/
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Authentication
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/rest/authentication/
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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/projects/
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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/applications/
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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/avatar/
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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/broadcast_messages/
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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/bulk_imports/
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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/settings/
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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/metadata/
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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/version/
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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/rest/
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APIReference
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/api_resources/
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RateLimits
https://docs.gitlab.com/security/rate_limits/
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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/oauth2/
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Authentication
https://docs.gitlab.com/integration/oauth_provider/
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Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/user/project/integrations/webhooks.html
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APIReference
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/project_webhooks/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://artifacts.apis.io/gitlab/openapi/gitlab-projects-api-openapi.yml
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AsyncAPI
https://artifacts.apis.io/gitlab/asyncapi/gitlab-webhooks-asyncapi.yml

Schemas & Data

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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/gitlab/json-schema/gitlab-api-entities-job-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/gitlab/json-schema/gitlab-api-entities-access-requester-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/gitlab/json-schema/gitlab-api-entities-branch-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/gitlab/json-schema/gitlab-api-entities-badge-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/gitlab/json-schema/gitlab-api-entities-metric-image-schema.json
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JSONSchema
https://artifacts.apis.io/gitlab/json-schema/gitlab-api-entities-basic-badge-details-schema.json

Other Resources

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SDKs
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/rest/third_party_clients/
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Interactive Documentation
https://docs.gitlab.com/api/openapi/openapi_interactive/

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OpenAPI Specification

gitlab-projects-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: GitLab REST Projects API
  description: GitLab REST API used to interact with a GitLab installation.
  termsOfService: https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/legal/api-terms/
  version: '19.6'
  license:
    name: CC BY-SA 4.0
    url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/LICENSE
    x-gitlab-description: The license applies to the OpenAPI specification document itself. For terms governing use of the GitLab API, see the termsOfService field.
servers:
- url: https://{hostname}
  description: GitLab REST API
  variables:
    hostname:
      default: gitlab.com
      description: Your GitLab instance hostname
security:
- http: []
- oauth2: []
- apiKey: []
tags:


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