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GitLab API

GitLab API: Automate Your Software Development Workflows

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This API is best for automating and optimizing software development workflows.

Developers should use this API to automate user provided operations on GitLab projects. This API can be used to execute git and svn operations, retrieve and create issues, access project information and more. Additionally, the API allows creating custom applications based on GitLab.

Key features

  • ✓GitLab API offers endpoints for projects
  • ✓groups
  • ✓users
  • ✓merge requests
  • ✓milestones
  • ✓labels
  • ✓events
  • ✓snippets
  • ✓and deploy keys.

Use case ideas

Hosted Application Marketplace

A marketplace for hosted applications built on top of the GitLab API. Developers could publish their applications and customers could discover and purchase hosted applications.

Automated Issue Creator

An application that uses the GitLab API to create issues automatically when certain events occur.

Intelligent GitLab Bot

A bot powered by the GitLab API that responds to user inputs and performs different tasks based on them.

GitLab API has made automating our software development workflows more efficient and easier than ever before. I couldn’t be happier with the ease of use and the time it has saved us as a team.
— a happy developer

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