RWTH Aachen University

RWTH GitLab REST API (self-hosted)

The RWTH IT Center self-hosts a GitLab instance at git.rwth-aachen.de used across the university's institutes, and it is also where Coscine itself is developed. The GitLab REST API v4 is reachable and answers keyless on public project listings (GET /api/v4/projects returned 200 on 2026-08-30); /api/v4/version requires a token and returns 401, which is correct behaviour, not a gap. OPERATOR NOTE: the instance, the domain, the hardware and the operational responsibility are RWTH's, so the surface is recorded as institution-operated. The CONTRACT, however, is GitLab's product specification, identical on every self-managed GitLab in the world. GitLab's generic OpenAPI is therefore deliberately NOT saved into this repository — doing so would credit RWTH with GitLab's engineering, which is precisely the misattribution this pipeline exists to prevent. The contract scores against GitLab's own repo; the deployment is recorded here.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://git.rwth-aachen.de/

Other Resources

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SourceCode
https://git.rwth-aachen.de/coscine

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: rwth-aachen-university:gitlab
x-operator: institution
name: RWTH GitLab REST API (self-hosted)
description: 'The RWTH IT Center self-hosts a GitLab instance at git.rwth-aachen.de used across the university''s
  institutes, and it is also where Coscine itself is developed. The GitLab REST API v4 is reachable and
  answers keyless on public project listings (GET /api/v4/projects returned 200 on 2026-08-30); /api/v4/version
  requires a token and returns 401, which is correct behaviour, not a gap. OPERATOR NOTE: the instance,
  the domain, the hardware and the operational responsibility are RWTH''s, so the surface is recorded
  as institution-operated. The CONTRACT, however, is GitLab''s product specification, identical on every
  self-managed GitLab in the world. GitLab''s generic OpenAPI is therefore deliberately NOT saved into
  this repository — doing so would credit RWTH with GitLab''s engineering, which is precisely the misattribution
  this pipeline exists to prevent. The contract scores against GitLab''s own repo; the deployment is recorded
  here.'
humanURL: https://git.rwth-aachen.de/
baseURL: https://git.rwth-aachen.de/api/v4
x-contract-author: GitLab Inc.
x-contract-saved: false
tags:
- Source Control
- Developer Tools
- Self-Hosted
- Research Software
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://git.rwth-aachen.de/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://git.rwth-aachen.de/coscine