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Groups

List groups

Get a list of groups. (As user: my groups, as admin: all groups)

GET /groups
[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Foobar Group",
    "path": "foo-bar",
    "description": "An interesting group"
  }
]

You can search for groups by name or path, see below.

List a group's projects

Get a list of projects in this group.

GET /groups/:id/projects

Parameters:

  • archived (optional) - if passed, limit by archived status
  • visibility (optional) - if passed, limit by visibility public, internal, private
  • order_by (optional) - Return requests ordered by id, name, path, created_at, updated_at or last_activity_at fields. Default is created_at
  • sort (optional) - Return requests sorted in asc or desc order. Default is desc
  • search (optional) - Return list of authorized projects according to a search criteria
  • ci_enabled_first - Return projects ordered by ci_enabled flag. Projects with enabled GitLab CI go first
[
  {
    "id": 4,
    "description": null,
    "default_branch": "master",
    "public": false,
    "visibility_level": 0,
    "ssh_url_to_repo": "git@example.com:diaspora/diaspora-client.git",
    "http_url_to_repo": "http://example.com/diaspora/diaspora-client.git",
    "web_url": "http://example.com/diaspora/diaspora-client",
    "tag_list": [
      "example",
      "disapora client"
    ],
    "owner": {
      "id": 3,
      "name": "Diaspora",
      "created_at": "2013-09-30T13: 46: 02Z"
    },
    "name": "Diaspora Client",
    "name_with_namespace": "Diaspora / Diaspora Client",
    "path": "diaspora-client",
    "path_with_namespace": "diaspora/diaspora-client",
    "issues_enabled": true,
    "merge_requests_enabled": true,
    "builds_enabled": true,
    "wiki_enabled": true,
    "snippets_enabled": false,
    "created_at": "2013-09-30T13: 46: 02Z",
    "last_activity_at": "2013-09-30T13: 46: 02Z",
    "creator_id": 3,
    "namespace": {
      "created_at": "2013-09-30T13: 46: 02Z",
      "description": "",
      "id": 3,
      "name": "Diaspora",
      "owner_id": 1,
      "path": "diaspora",
      "updated_at": "2013-09-30T13: 46: 02Z"
    },
    "archived": false,
    "avatar_url": "http://example.com/uploads/project/avatar/4/uploads/avatar.png"
  }
]

Details of a group

Get all details of a group.

GET /groups/:id

Parameters:

  • id (required) - The ID or path of a group

New group

Creates a new project group. Available only for users who can create groups.

POST /groups

Parameters:

  • name (required) - The name of the group
  • path (required) - The path of the group
  • description (optional) - The group's description
  • visibility_level (optional) - The group's visibility. 0 for private, 10 for internal, 20 for public.

Transfer project to group

Transfer a project to the Group namespace. Available only for admin

POST  /groups/:id/projects/:project_id

Parameters:

  • id (required) - The ID or path of a group
  • project_id (required) - The ID of a project

Update group

Updates the project group. Only available to group owners and administrators.

PUT /groups/:id
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer yes The ID of the group
name string no The name of the group
path string no The path of the group
description string no The description of the group
visibility_level integer no The visibility level of the group. 0 for private, 10 for internal, 20 for public. 
curl -X PUT -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/groups/5?name=Experimental"

Example response:

{
  "id": 5,
  "name": "Experimental",
  "path": "h5bp",
  "description": "foo",
  "visibility_level": 10,
  "avatar_url": null,
  "web_url": "http://gitlab.example.com/groups/h5bp",
  "projects": [
    {
      "id": 9,
      "description": "foo",
      "default_branch": "master",
      "tag_list": [],
      "public": false,
      "archived": false,
      "visibility_level": 10,
      "ssh_url_to_repo": "git@gitlab.example.com/html5-boilerplate.git",
      "http_url_to_repo": "http://gitlab.example.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate.git",
      "web_url": "http://gitlab.example.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate",
      "name": "Html5 Boilerplate",
      "name_with_namespace": "Experimental / Html5 Boilerplate",
      "path": "html5-boilerplate",
      "path_with_namespace": "h5bp/html5-boilerplate",
      "issues_enabled": true,
      "merge_requests_enabled": true,
      "wiki_enabled": true,
      "builds_enabled": true,
      "snippets_enabled": true,
      "created_at": "2016-04-05T21:40:50.169Z",
      "last_activity_at": "2016-04-06T16:52:08.432Z",
      "shared_runners_enabled": true,
      "creator_id": 1,
      "namespace": {
        "id": 5,
        "name": "Experimental",
        "path": "h5bp",
        "owner_id": null,
        "created_at": "2016-04-05T21:40:49.152Z",
        "updated_at": "2016-04-07T08:07:48.466Z",
        "description": "foo",
        "avatar": {
          "url": null
        },
        "share_with_group_lock": false,
        "visibility_level": 10
      },
      "avatar_url": null,
      "star_count": 1,
      "forks_count": 0,
      "open_issues_count": 3,
      "public_builds": true
    }
  ]
}

Remove group

Removes group with all projects inside.

DELETE /groups/:id

Parameters:

  • id (required) - The ID or path of a user group

Search for group

Get all groups that match your string in their name or path.

GET /groups?search=foobar
[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Foobar Group",
    "path": "foo-bar",
    "description": "An interesting group"
  }
]

Group members

Group access levels

The group access levels are defined in the Gitlab::Access module. Currently, these levels are recognized:

GUEST     = 10
REPORTER  = 20
DEVELOPER = 30
MASTER    = 40
OWNER     = 50

List group members

Get a list of group members viewable by the authenticated user.

GET /groups/:id/members
[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "username": "raymond_smith",
    "email": "ray@smith.org",
    "name": "Raymond Smith",
    "state": "active",
    "created_at": "2012-10-22T14:13:35Z",
    "access_level": 30
  },
  {
    "id": 2,
    "username": "john_doe",
    "email": "joh@doe.org",
    "name": "John Doe",
    "state": "active",
    "created_at": "2012-10-22T14:13:35Z",
    "access_level": 30
  }
]

Add group member

Adds a user to the list of group members.

POST /groups/:id/members

Parameters:

  • id (required) - The ID or path of a group
  • user_id (required) - The ID of a user to add
  • access_level (required) - Project access level

Edit group team member

Updates a group team member to a specified access level.

PUT /groups/:id/members/:user_id

Parameters:

  • id (required) - The ID of a group
  • user_id (required) - The ID of a group member
  • access_level (required) - Project access level

Remove user team member

Removes user from user team.

DELETE /groups/:id/members/:user_id

Parameters:

  • id (required) - The ID or path of a user group
  • user_id (required) - The ID of a group member

Namespaces in groups

By default, groups only get 20 namespaces at a time because the API results are paginated.

To get more (up to 100), pass the following as an argument to the API call:

/groups?per_page=100

And to switch pages add:

/groups?per_page=100&page=2