Job Artifacts API

Use the job artifacts API to download or delete job artifacts.

Authentication with a CI/CD job token available in the Premium and Ultimate tier.

Get job artifacts

Get a zipped archive of a job’s artifacts from a project.

If you use cURL to download artifacts from GitLab.com, use the --location parameter as the request might redirect through a CDN.

GET /projects/:id/jobs/:job_id/artifacts

Example request using the PRIVATE-TOKEN header:

curl --location --output artifacts.zip --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/jobs/42/artifacts"

In the Premium and Ultimate tier you can authenticate with this endpoint in a CI/CD job by using a CI/CD job token.

Use either:

• The job_token attribute with the GitLab-provided CI_JOB_TOKEN predefined variable. For example, the following job downloads the artifacts of the job with ID 42:

  artifact_download:
    stage: test
    script:
      - 'curl --location --output artifacts.zip "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/jobs/42/artifacts?job_token=$CI_JOB_TOKEN"'

• The JOB-TOKEN header with the GitLab-provided CI_JOB_TOKEN predefined variable. For example, the following job downloads the artifacts of the job with ID 42. The command is wrapped in single quotes because it contains a colon (:):

  artifact_download:
    stage: test
    script:
      - 'curl --location --output artifacts.zip --header "JOB-TOKEN: $CI_JOB_TOKEN" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/jobs/42/artifacts"'

Possible response status codes:

Download the artifacts archive

Download a zipped archive of a job’s artifacts in the latest successful pipeline using the reference name. This endpoint is the same as getting the job’s artifacts, but uses the job’s name instead of its ID.

The latest successful pipeline is determined based on creation time. The start or end time of individual jobs does not affect which pipeline is the latest.

For parent and child pipelines, artifacts are searched in hierarchical order from parent to child. If both parent and child pipelines have a job with the same name, the artifact from the parent pipeline is returned.

Prerequisites:

• You must have a completed pipeline with a success status.
• If the pipeline includes manual jobs, they must either:
  • Complete successfully.
  • Have allow_failure: true set.

If you use cURL to download artifacts from GitLab.com, use the --location parameter as the request might redirect through a CDN.

GET /projects/:id/jobs/artifacts/:ref_name/download?job=name

Parameters

Example request using the PRIVATE-TOKEN header:

curl --location --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/jobs/artifacts/main/download?job=test"

In the Premium and Ultimate tier you can authenticate with this endpoint in a CI/CD job by using a CI/CD job token.

Use either:

• The job_token attribute with the GitLab-provided CI_JOB_TOKEN predefined variable. For example, the following job downloads the artifacts of the test job of the main branch:

  artifact_download:
    stage: test
    script:
      - 'curl --location --output artifacts.zip "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/$CI_PROJECT_ID/jobs/artifacts/main/download?job=test&job_token=$CI_JOB_TOKEN"'

• The JOB-TOKEN header with the GitLab-provided CI_JOB_TOKEN predefined variable. For example, the following job downloads the artifacts of the test job of the main branch. The command is wrapped in single quotes because it contains a colon (:):

  artifact_download:
    stage: test
    script:
      - 'curl --location --output artifacts.zip --header "JOB-TOKEN: $CI_JOB_TOKEN" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/$CI_PROJECT_ID/jobs/artifacts/main/download?job=test"'

Possible response status codes:

Download a single artifact file by job ID

Download a single file from a job’s zipped artifacts using the job ID. The file is extracted from the archive and streamed to the client.

If you use cURL to download artifacts from GitLab.com, use the --location parameter as the request might redirect through a CDN.

GET /projects/:id/jobs/:job_id/artifacts/*artifact_path

Parameters

Example request:

curl --location --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/jobs/5/artifacts/some/release/file.pdf"

In the Premium and Ultimate tier you can authenticate with this endpoint in a CI/CD job by using a CI/CD job token.

Possible response status codes:

Download a single artifact file from specific tag or branch

Download a single file from a job’s artifacts in the latest successful pipeline using the reference name. The file is extracted from the archive and streamed to the client with the plain/text content type.

For parent and child pipelines, artifacts are searched in hierarchical order from parent to child. If both parent and child pipelines have a job with the same name, the artifact from the parent pipeline is returned.

The artifact file provides more detail than what is available in the CSV export.

Prerequisites:

• You must have a completed pipeline with a success status.
• If the pipeline includes manual jobs, they must either:
  • Complete successfully.
  • Have allow_failure: true set.

If you use cURL to download artifacts from GitLab.com, use the --location parameter as the request might redirect through a CDN.

GET /projects/:id/jobs/artifacts/:ref_name/raw/*artifact_path?job=name

Parameters:

Example request:

curl --location --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/jobs/artifacts/main/raw/some/release/file.pdf?job=pdf"

In the Premium and Ultimate tier you can authenticate with this endpoint in a CI/CD job by using a CI/CD job token.

Possible response status codes:

Keep artifacts

Prevents artifacts from being deleted when expiration is set.

POST /projects/:id/jobs/:job_id/artifacts/keep

Parameters

Example request:

curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/jobs/1/artifacts/keep"

Example response:

{
  "commit": {
    "author_email": "admin@example.com",
    "author_name": "Administrator",
    "created_at": "2015-12-24T16:51:14.000+01:00",
    "id": "0ff3ae198f8601a285adcf5c0fff204ee6fba5fd",
    "message": "Test the CI integration.",
    "short_id": "0ff3ae19",
    "title": "Test the CI integration."
  },
  "coverage": null,
  "allow_failure": false,
  "download_url": null,
  "id": 42,
  "name": "rubocop",
  "ref": "main",
  "artifacts": [],
  "runner": null,
  "stage": "test",
  "created_at": "2016-01-11T10:13:33.506Z",
  "started_at": "2016-01-11T10:13:33.506Z",
  "finished_at": "2016-01-11T10:15:10.506Z",
  "duration": 97.0,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure_reason": "script_failure",
  "tag": false,
  "web_url": "https://example.com/foo/bar/-/jobs/42",
  "user": null
}

Delete job artifacts

Delete artifacts of a job.

Prerequisites:

• You must have at least the maintainer role for the project.

DELETE /projects/:id/jobs/:job_id/artifacts

Example request:

curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/jobs/1/artifacts"

If the artifacts were deleted successfully, a response with status 204 No Content is returned.

Delete all job artifacts in a project

Delete all job artifacts eligible for deletion in a project. By default, artifacts from the most recent successful pipeline of each ref are not deleted.

Requests to this endpoint set the expiry of all job artifacts that can be deleted to the current time. The files are then deleted from the system as part of the regular cleanup of expired job artifacts. Job logs are never deleted.

The regular cleanup occurs asynchronously on a schedule, so there might be a short delay before artifacts are deleted.

Prerequisites:

• You must have at least the Maintainer role for the project.

DELETE /projects/:id/artifacts

Example request:

curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/artifacts"

A response with status 202 Accepted is returned.

Troubleshooting

Downloading artifacts:reports files

You might get a 404 Not Found error when trying to download reports using the job artifacts API.

This issue occurs because reports are not downloadable by default.

To make reports downloadable, add their filenames or gl-*-report.json to artifacts:paths.