python-gitlab#
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 images#
python-gitlab
provides Docker images in two flavors, based on the Alpine and Debian slim
python base images. The default tag is alpine
,
but you can explicitly use the alias (see below).
The alpine image is smaller, but you may want to use the Debian-based slim tag (currently
based on -slim-bullseye
) if you are running into issues or need a more complete environment
with a bash shell, such as in CI jobs.
The images are published on the GitLab registry, for example:
registry.gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab:latest
(latest, alpine alias)registry.gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab:alpine
(latest alpine)registry.gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab:slim-bullseye
(latest slim-bullseye)registry.gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab:v3.2.0
(alpine alias)registry.gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab:v3.2.0-alpine
registry.gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab:v3.2.0-slim-bullseye
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> ...
Build a Debian slim-based image:
$ docker build -t python-gitlab:latest --build-arg PYTHON_FLAVOR=slim-bullseye .
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.