Project snippets

Snippet visibility level

Snippets in GitLab can be either private, internal or public. You can set it with the visibility field in the snippet.

Constants for snippet visibility levels are:

visibilityDescription
privateThe snippet is visible only to project members.
internalThe snippet is visible for any authenticated user except external users.
publicThe snippet can be accessed without any authentication.
note
From July 2019, the Internal visibility setting is disabled for new projects, groups, and snippets on GitLab.com. Existing projects, groups, and snippets using the Internal visibility setting keep this setting. You can read more about the change in the relevant issue.

List snippets

Get a list of project snippets.

GET /projects/:id/snippets

Parameters:

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
idinteger or stringyesThe ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user.

Single snippet

Get a single project snippet.

GET /projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id

Parameters:

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
idinteger or stringyesThe ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user.
snippet_idintegeryesThe ID of a project’s snippet.
{
  "id": 1,
  "title": "test",
  "file_name": "add.rb",
  "description": "Ruby test snippet",
  "author": {
    "id": 1,
    "username": "john_smith",
    "email": "john@example.com",
    "name": "John Smith",
    "state": "active",
    "created_at": "2012-05-23T08:00:58Z"
  },
  "updated_at": "2012-06-28T10:52:04Z",
  "created_at": "2012-06-28T10:52:04Z",
  "project_id": 1,
  "web_url": "http://example.com/example/example/snippets/1",
  "raw_url": "http://example.com/example/example/snippets/1/raw"
}

Create new snippet

Creates a new project snippet. The user must have permission to create new snippets.

POST /projects/:id/snippets

Parameters:

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
idinteger or stringyesThe ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user.
titlestringyesTitle of a snippet.
file_namestringnoDeprecated: Use files instead. Name of a snippet file.
contentstringnoDeprecated: Use files instead. Content of a snippet.
descriptionstringnoDescription of a snippet.
visibilitystringnoSnippet’s visibility
filesarray of hashesnoAn array of snippet files.
files:file_pathstringyesFile path of the snippet file.
files:contentstringyesContent of the snippet file.

Example request:

curl --request POST "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/:id/snippets" \
     --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your access token>" \
     --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d @snippet.json

snippet.json used in the above example request:

{
  "title" : "Example Snippet Title",
  "description" : "More verbose snippet description",
  "visibility" : "private",
  "files": [
    {
      "file_path": "example.txt",
      "content" : "source code \n with multiple lines\n"
    }
  ]
}

Update snippet

Updates an existing project snippet. The user must have permission to change an existing snippet.

Updates to snippets with multiple files must use the files attribute.

PUT /projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id

Parameters:

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
idinteger or stringyesThe ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user.
snippet_idintegeryesThe ID of a project’s snippet.
titlestringnoTitle of a snippet.
file_namestringnoDeprecated: Use files instead. Name of a snippet file.
contentstringnoDeprecated: Use files instead. Content of a snippet.
descriptionstringnoDescription of a snippet.
visibilitystringnoSnippet’s visibility
filesarray of hashesnoAn array of snippet files.
files:actionstringyesType of action to perform on the file, one of: create, update, delete, move
files:file_pathstringnoFile path of the snippet file.
files:previous_pathstringnoPrevious path of the snippet file.
files:contentstringnoContent of the snippet file.

Example request:

curl --request PUT "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id" \
     --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" \
     --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d @snippet.json

snippet.json used in the above example request:

{
  "title" : "Updated Snippet Title",
  "description" : "More verbose snippet description",
  "visibility" : "private",
  "files": [
    {
      "action": "update",
      "file_path": "example.txt",
      "content" : "updated source code \n with multiple lines\n"
    }
  ]
}

Delete snippet

Deletes an existing project snippet. This returns a 204 No Content status code if the operation was successfully or 404 if the resource was not found.

DELETE /projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id

Parameters:

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
idinteger or stringyesThe ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user.
snippet_idintegeryesThe ID of a project’s snippet.

Example request:

curl --request DELETE "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id" \
     --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>"

Snippet content

Returns the raw project snippet as plain text.

GET /projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id/raw

Parameters:

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
idinteger or stringyesThe ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user.
snippet_idintegeryesThe ID of a project’s snippet.

Example request:

curl "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id/raw" \
     --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>"

Snippet repository file content

Returns the raw file content as plain text.

GET /projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id/files/:ref/:file_path/raw

Parameters:

AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
idinteger or stringyesThe ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
snippet_idintegeryesThe ID of a project’s snippet.
refstringyesThe name of a branch, tag or commit, for example, main.
file_pathstringyesThe URL-encoded path to the file, for example, snippet%2Erb.

Example request:

curl "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/1/snippets/2/files/master/snippet%2Erb/raw" \
     --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>"

Get user agent details

Available only for users with administrator access.

GET /projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id/user_agent_detail
AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
idinteger or stringyesThe ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user.
snippet_idIntegeryesThe ID of a snippet.

Example request:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/snippets/2/user_agent_detail"

Example response:

{
  "user_agent": "AppleWebKit/537.36",
  "ip_address": "127.0.0.1",
  "akismet_submitted": false
}