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).
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-gitlabThe 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.gitFrom GitLab:
$ pip install git+https://gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab.gitYou 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/gitlabYou 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> ...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> ...Please report bugs and feature requests at https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/issues.
There is a gitter community chat available at https://gitter.im/python-gitlab/Lobby
The full documentation for CLI and API is available on readthedocs.
We use tox to manage our environment and build the documentation:
pip install tox tox -e docs
For guidelines for contributing to python-gitlab, refer to CONTRIBUTING.rst.