gitlab-org--gitlab-foss/doc/api/project_snippets.md

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Project snippets (FREE)

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:

visibility	Description
private	The snippet is visible only to project members
internal	The snippet is visible for any logged in user except external users
public	The 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:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer or string	yes	The 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:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer or string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
snippet_id	integer	yes	The 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:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer or string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
title	string	yes	Title of a snippet
file_name	string	no	Deprecated: Use files instead. Name of a snippet file
content	string	no	Deprecated: Use files instead. Content of a snippet
description	string	no	Description of a snippet
visibility	string	no	Snippet's visibility
files	array of hashes	no	An array of snippet files
files:file_path	string	yes	File path of the snippet file
files:content	string	yes	Content 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.

PUT /projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id

Parameters:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer or string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
snippet_id	integer	yes	The ID of a project's snippet
title	string	no	Title of a snippet
file_name	string	no	Deprecated: Use files instead. Name of a snippet file
content	string	no	Deprecated: Use files instead. Content of a snippet
description	string	no	Description of a snippet
visibility	string	no	Snippet's visibility
files	array of hashes	no	An array of snippet files
files:action	string	yes	Type of action to perform on the file, one of: create, update, delete, move
files:file_path	string	no	File path of the snippet file
files:previous_path	string	no	Previous path of the snippet file
files:content	string	no	Content of the snippet file

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

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:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer or string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
snippet_id	integer	yes	The 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:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer or string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
snippet_id	integer	yes	The 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:

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer or string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
snippet_id	integer	yes	The ID of a project's snippet
ref	string	yes	The name of a branch, tag or commit, for example, main
file_path	string	yes	The 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

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	integer or string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
snippet_id	Integer	yes	The 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
}