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python-gitlab
=============

.. image:: https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/workflows/Test/badge.svg
   :target: https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/actions

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   :target: https://badge.fury.io/py/python-gitlab

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   :target: https://python-gitlab.readthedocs.org/en/latest/?badge=latest

.. image:: https://codecov.io/github/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/coverage.svg?branch=main
    :target: https://codecov.io/github/python-gitlab/python-gitlab?branch=main

.. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/python-gitlab.svg
   :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-gitlab

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   :target: https://gitter.im/python-gitlab/Lobby

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    :target: https://github.com/python/black

``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``:

.. code-block:: console

   $ pip install --upgrade python-gitlab

The current development version is available on both `GitHub.com
<https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab>`__ and `GitLab.com
<https://gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab>`__, and can be
installed directly from the git repository:

.. code-block:: console

   $ pip install git+https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab.git

From GitLab:

.. code-block:: console

   $ pip install git+https://gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab.git


Using the docker image
----------------------

You can run the Docker image directly from the GitLab registry:

.. code-block:: console

   $ docker run -it --rm registry.gitlab.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab:latest <command> ...

For example, to get a project on GitLab.com (without authentication):

.. code-block:: console

   $ 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:

.. code-block:: console

   $ 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:

.. code-block:: console

   $ docker build -t python-gitlab:latest .

Run your own image:

.. code-block:: console

   $ docker run -it --rm -v python-gitlab:latest <command> ...

Bug reports
-----------

Please report bugs and feature requests at
https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/issues.

Gitter Community Chat
---------------------

There is a `gitter <https://gitter.im/python-gitlab/Lobby>`_ community chat
available at https://gitter.im/python-gitlab/Lobby

Documentation
-------------

The full documentation for CLI and API is available on `readthedocs
<http://python-gitlab.readthedocs.org/en/stable/>`_.

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 <https://github.com/python-gitlab/python-gitlab/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst>`_.