# BEAR GitLab (self-hosted, /api/v4)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/gitlab/  
**Provider:** University of Birmingham — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-birmingham/  
**Base URL:** https://gitlab.bham.ac.uk/api/v4  
**Documentation:** https://gitlab.bham.ac.uk/

BEAR GitLab (self-hosted, /api/v4) is one of 9 APIs that [University of Birmingham](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-birmingham/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Computing, Source Control, GitLab, and Self-Hosted.

A GitLab instance the University runs itself on the BEAR (Birmingham Environment for Academic Research) estate — gitlab.bham.ac.uk resolves through proxy-vrrp-1.bear.bham.ac.uk to 147.188.x, Birmingham address space, not to gitlab.com or any hosted GitLab tenancy. The GitLab REST API is live at /api/v4 and GET /api/v4/projects answers keyless with real public research projects; /api/v4/version returns 401 as expected for an unauthenticated caller. The deployment is the institution's; the API contract is GitLab's product surface, so no OpenAPI is saved here. Worth recording precisely because it inverts the usual pattern: the web UI is entirely gated — /, /explore, /explore/projects and /help all 302 to /users/sign_in — while GET /api/v4/projects answers an anonymous caller with real project records. The institution publishes no documentation for this surface; /help is behind the sign-in wall, so no Documentation pointer is claimed.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-birmingham/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other University of Birmingham APIs (8)

- [UBIRA eData (EPrints OAI-PMH + REST)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/edata/)
- [UBIRA eTheses (EPrints OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/etheses/)
- [ePapers Repository (EPrints OAI-PMH)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/epapers/)
- [University of Birmingham Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/identity-provider/)
- [English Constructicon API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/english-constructicon/)
- [Elsevier Pure research portal (Birmingham tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/pure-research-portal/)
- [FindIt@Bham library discovery (Ex Libris Primo tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/findit-primo/)
- [Canvas virtual learning environment (Instructure tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/canvas-vle/)

## Tags

Research Computing, Source Control, GitLab, Self-Hosted

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-birmingham/gitlab/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/university-of-birmingham/.