University of Zurich

UZH GitLab REST API

UZH self-hosts GitLab for research and teaching code. The GitLab v4 REST API is reachable without credentials for public resources — /api/v4/projects returns project metadata anonymously — while /api/v4/version requires a token and returns 401. Sign-in is SWITCHaai/Shibboleth-federated. There is no UZH-authored documentation for this surface; it is GitLab's stock API on a UZH deployment.

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https://gitlab.uzh.ch/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-zurich:gitlab-api
name: UZH GitLab REST API
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: gitlab.uzh.ch is UZH's own host, registered as a service provider in the SWITCHaai federation
  under entityID https://gitlab.uzh.ch/shibboleth, and the instance is self-hosted by UZH rather than
  a gitlab.com group. The v4 REST contract is GitLab's, so no GitLab specification is saved here — only
  the fact that UZH runs an instance and leaves public project metadata readable.
description: UZH self-hosts GitLab for research and teaching code. The GitLab v4 REST API is reachable
  without credentials for public resources — /api/v4/projects returns project metadata anonymously — while
  /api/v4/version requires a token and returns 401. Sign-in is SWITCHaai/Shibboleth-federated. There is
  no UZH-authored documentation for this surface; it is GitLab's stock API on a UZH deployment.
humanURL: https://gitlab.uzh.ch/
baseURL: https://gitlab.uzh.ch/api/v4
x-liveness: 'GET on the bare base https://gitlab.uzh.ch/api/v4 returns 404 because GitLab mounts no handler
  at the API root. The surface is live: /api/v4/projects?per_page=2 returned 200 with real project JSON
  on 2026-08-30, and /api/v4/version returned 401. Do not read the root 404 as a dead pointer.'
tags:
- Source Control
- Research Computing
- REST
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://gitlab.uzh.ch/