python-gitlab 3.5.0

Interact with GitLab API

python-gitlab is a Python package providing access to the GitLab server API.

It supports the v4 API of GitLab, and provides a CLI tool (gitlab).

Installation

As of 3.0.0, python-gitlab is compatible with Python 3.7+.

Use pip to install the latest stable version of python-gitlab:

$ pip install --upgrade python-gitlab

The current development version is available on both GitHub.com and GitLab.com, and can be installed directly from the git repository:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab.git

From GitLab:

$ pip install git+https://gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab.git

Using the docker image

You can run the Docker image directly from the GitLab registry:

$ docker run -it --rm registry.gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab:latest <command> ...

For example, to get a project on GitLab.com (without authentication):

$ docker run -it --rm registry.gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab:latest project get --id gitlab-org/gitlab

You can also mount your own config file:

$ docker run -it --rm -v /path/to/python-gitlab.cfg:/etc/python-gitlab.cfg registry.gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab:latest <command> ...

Building the image

To build your own image from this repository, run:

$ docker build -t python-gitlab:latest .

Run your own image:

$ docker run -it --rm -v python-gitlab:latest <command> ...

Bug reports

Please report bugs and feature requests at https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/issues.

Gitter Community Chat

We have a gitter community chat available at https://gitter.im/python-gitlab/Lobby, which you can also directly access via the Open Chat button below.

If you have a simple question, the community might be able to help already, without you opening an issue. If you regularly use python-gitlab, we also encourage you to join and participate. You might discover new ideas and use cases yourself!

Documentation

The full documentation for CLI and API is available on readthedocs.

Build the docs

We use tox to manage our environment and build the documentation:

pip install tox
tox -e docs

Contributing

For guidelines for contributing to python-gitlab, refer to CONTRIBUTING.rst.