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GitLab REST API

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Rate limitVaries by endpoint; public reads have generous shared limits, authenticated calls get more.

Documentation: docs.gitlab.com ยท Checked Sep 13, 2026

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GitLab's REST API lets you control almost everything in GitLab: projects, files, issues, merge requests, users, and CI/CD pipelines. You call it with simple web requests and get answers back in JSON, a format any app can read. Public project data can often be read without any login.

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Rate limit: Varies by endpoint; public reads have generous shared limits, authenticated calls get more.

Verified: 2026-09-13

Best for: developer

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Setup

  1. Sign up free at gitlab.com.
  2. Open your avatar menu > Preferences > Access Tokens and create a personal access token with the scopes you need.
  3. Copy the token once. You won't see it again.
  4. Test it with: curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: YOUR_TOKEN" https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects?membership=true.
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