Group relations export API

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  • Offering: GitLab.com, GitLab Self-Managed, GitLab Dedicated

The group relations export API partially exports a group’s structure as separate files for each top-level relation (for example, milestones, boards, and labels).

The group relations export API is primarily used in group migration by direct transfer and your GitLab instance must meet certain prerequisites.

This API can’t be used with the group import and export API.

Schedule new export

Start a new group relations export:

POST /groups/:id/export_relations
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer/string yes ID of the group.
batched boolean no Whether to export in batches. 
curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/1/export_relations"
{
  "message": "202 Accepted"
}

Export status

View the status of the relations export:

GET /groups/:id/export_relations/status
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer/string yes ID of the group.
relation string no Name of the project top-level relation to view. 
curl --request GET --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" \
     "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/1/export_relations/status"

The status can be one of the following:

  • 0: started
  • 1: finished
  • -1: failed
[
  {
    "relation": "badges",
    "status": 1,
    "error": null,
    "updated_at": "2021-05-04T11:25:20.423Z",
    "batched": true,
    "batches_count": 1,
    "batches": [
      {
        "status": 1,
        "batch_number": 1,
        "objects_count": 1,
        "error": null,
        "updated_at": "2021-05-04T11:25:20.423Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "relation": "boards",
    "status": 1,
    "error": null,
    "updated_at": "2021-05-04T11:25:20.085Z",
    "batched": false,
    "batches_count": 0
  }
]

Export download

Download the finished relations export:

GET /groups/:id/export_relations/download
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer/string yes ID of the group.
relation string yes Name of the group top-level relation to download.
batched boolean no Whether the export is batched.
batch_number integer no Number of export batch to download. 
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" --remote-header-name \
     --remote-name "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/1/export_relations/download?relation=labels"
ls labels.ndjson.gz
labels.ndjson.gz