gitlab-api-v4 - Man Page

Command line interface to the GitLab API v4.

Synopsis

    # Generally:
    gitlab-api-v4 [<options>] <method> [<arg> ...] [<param>:<value> ...]
    
    # List all groups:
    gitlab-api-v4 groups
    
    # List information about a project:
    gitlab-api-v4 project <project_id>
    
    # Create an admin user:
    gitlab-api-v4 create-user \
        username:foo \
        password:xxxxxxxx \
        email:user@example.com \
        "name:Foo Smith" \
        admin:1

Configuring

You may configure this module with environment variables, command line options, and a configuration file. To setup the configuration file run:

    gitlab-api-v4 configure

This will ask several interactive questions to help you configure this script. The information, which may include GitLab authentication tokens, is stored in ~/.gitlab-api-v4.json.

Options

url

    --url=<url>

Sets “url” in GitLab::API::v4.

access-token

    --access-token=<token>

Sets “access_token” in GitLab::API::v4.

private-token

    --private-token=<token>

Sets “private_token” in GitLab::API::v4.

retries

    --retries=<count>

Sets “retries” in GitLab::API::v4.

all

    --all
    -a

Retrieves all results when the results would normally be paged. See “all” in GitLab::API::v4::Paginator for details.

pretty

    --pretty
    -p

Enables the “pretty” in JSON feature.

canonical

    --canonical
    -c

Enables the “canonical” in JSON feature.

API Method

    <method>

The API method to call - one of the methods documented in “API METHODS” in GitLab::API::v4.

API Arguments

    <arg> ...

Any arguments that the “API Method” requires.

API Parameters

    <param>:<value> ...

Any parameters that the “API Method” accepts.

access-level

    access-level:guest
    access-level:reporter
    access-level:developer
    access-level:master
    access-level:owner

There are mappings setup for the various access-level parameters so that you can, for example, specify access-level:guest and it will be automatically converted to access-level:10.