Project remote mirrors API (FREE)

Push mirrors defined on a project's repository settings are called "remote mirrors". You can query and modify the state of these mirrors with the remote mirror API.

For security reasons, the url attribute in the API response is always scrubbed of username and password information.

NOTE: Pull mirrors use a different API endpoint to display and update them.

List a project's remote mirrors

Returns an array of remote mirrors and their statuses:

GET /projects/:id/remote_mirrors

Example request:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/42/remote_mirrors"

Example response:

[
  {
    "enabled": true,
    "id": 101486,
    "last_error": null,
    "last_successful_update_at": "2020-01-06T17:32:02.823Z",
    "last_update_at": "2020-01-06T17:32:02.823Z",
    "last_update_started_at": "2020-01-06T17:31:55.864Z",
    "only_protected_branches": true,
    "keep_divergent_refs": true,
    "update_status": "finished",
    "url": "https://*****:*****@gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security/gitlab.git"
  }
]

Get a single project's remote mirror

Introduced in GitLab 14.10.

Returns a remote mirror and its statuses:

GET /projects/:id/remote_mirrors/:mirror_id

Example request:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/42/remote_mirrors/101486"

Example response:

{
  "enabled": true,
  "id": 101486,
  "last_error": null,
  "last_successful_update_at": "2020-01-06T17:32:02.823Z",
  "last_update_at": "2020-01-06T17:32:02.823Z",
  "last_update_started_at": "2020-01-06T17:31:55.864Z",
  "only_protected_branches": true,
  "keep_divergent_refs": true,
  "update_status": "finished",
  "url": "https://*****:*****@gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security/gitlab.git"
}

Create a pull mirror

Learn how to configure a pull mirror using the Projects API.

Create a push mirror

Field mirror_branch_regex introduced in GitLab 15.8 with a flag named mirror_only_branches_match_regex. Disabled by default.

FLAG: On self-managed GitLab, by default the field mirror_branch_regex is not available. To make it available, ask an administrator to enable the feature flag named mirror_only_branches_match_regex. On GitLab.com, this feature is not available.

Push mirroring is disabled by default. To enable it, include the optional parameter enabled when you create the mirror:

POST /projects/:id/remote_mirrors

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`url`	String	yes	The target URL to which the repository is mirrored.
`enabled`	Boolean	no	Determines if the mirror is enabled.
`keep_divergent_refs`	Boolean	no	Determines if divergent refs are skipped.
`only_protected_branches`	Boolean	no	Determines if only protected branches are mirrored.
`mirror_branch_regex` (PREMIUM)	String	no	Contains a regular expression. Only branches with names matching the regex are mirrored. Requires `only_protected_branches` to be disabled.

Example request:

curl --request POST --data "url=https://username:token@example.com/gitlab/example.git" \
     --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/42/remote_mirrors"

Example response:

{
    "enabled": false,
    "id": 101486,
    "last_error": null,
    "last_successful_update_at": null,
    "last_update_at": null,
    "last_update_started_at": null,
    "only_protected_branches": false,
    "keep_divergent_refs": false,
    "update_status": "none",
    "url": "https://*****:*****@example.com/gitlab/example.git"
}

Update a remote mirror's attributes

Toggle a remote mirror on or off, or change which types of branches are mirrored:

PUT /projects/:id/remote_mirrors/:mirror_id

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`mirror_id`	Integer	yes	The remote mirror ID.
`enabled`	Boolean	no	Determines if the mirror is enabled.
`keep_divergent_refs`	Boolean	no	Determines if divergent refs are skipped.
`only_protected_branches`	Boolean	no	Determines if only protected branches are mirrored.
`mirror_branch_regex`(PREMIUM)	String	no	Determines if only the branch whose name matches the regex is mirrored. It does not work with `only_protected_branches` enabled.

Example request:

curl --request PUT --data "enabled=false" --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/42/remote_mirrors/101486"

Example response:

{
    "enabled": false,
    "id": 101486,
    "last_error": null,
    "last_successful_update_at": "2020-01-06T17:32:02.823Z",
    "last_update_at": "2020-01-06T17:32:02.823Z",
    "last_update_started_at": "2020-01-06T17:31:55.864Z",
    "only_protected_branches": true,
    "keep_divergent_refs": true,
    "update_status": "finished",
    "url": "https://*****:*****@gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security/gitlab.git"
}

Delete a remote mirror

Introduced in GitLab 14.10.

Delete a remote mirror.

DELETE /projects/:id/remote_mirrors/:mirror_id

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`mirror_id`	Integer	yes	Remote mirror ID.

Example request:

curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/42/remote_mirrors/101486"