GitLab CI YAML API (FREE)

In GitLab, there is an API endpoint available to work with GitLab CI/CD YAML. For more information on CI/CD pipeline configuration in GitLab, see the configuration reference documentation.

List GitLab CI YAML templates

Get all GitLab CI/CD YAML templates.

GET /templates/gitlab_ci_ymls

Example request:

curl "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/templates/gitlab_ci_ymls"

Example response:

[
  {
    "key": "Android",
    "name": "Android"
  },
  {
    "key": "Android-Fastlane",
    "name": "Android-Fastlane"
  },
  {
    "key": "Auto-DevOps",
    "name": "Auto-DevOps"
  },
  {
    "key": "Bash",
    "name": "Bash"
  },
  {
    "key": "C++",
    "name": "C++"
  },
  {
    "key": "Chef",
    "name": "Chef"
  },
  {
    "key": "Clojure",
    "name": "Clojure"
  },
  {
    "key": "Code-Quality",
    "name": "Code-Quality"
  },
  {
    "key": "Crystal",
    "name": "Crystal"
  },
  {
    "key": "Django",
    "name": "Django"
  },
  {
    "key": "Docker",
    "name": "Docker"
  },
  {
    "key": "Elixir",
    "name": "Elixir"
  },
  {
    "key": "Go",
    "name": "Go"
  },
  {
    "key": "Gradle",
    "name": "Gradle"
  },
  {
    "key": "Grails",
    "name": "Grails"
  },
  {
    "key": "Julia",
    "name": "Julia"
  },
  {
    "key": "LaTeX",
    "name": "LaTeX"
  },
  {
    "key": "Laravel",
    "name": "Laravel"
  },
  {
    "key": "Maven",
    "name": "Maven"
  },
  {
    "key": "Mono",
    "name": "Mono"
  }
]

Single GitLab CI YAML template

Get a single GitLab CI/CD YAML template.

GET /templates/gitlab_ci_ymls/:key

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`key`	string	yes	The key of the GitLab CI/CD YAML template

Example request:

curl "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/templates/gitlab_ci_ymls/Ruby"

Example response:

{
  "name": "Ruby",
  "content": "# This file is a template, and might need editing before it works on your project.\n# To contribute improvements to CI/CD templates, please follow the Development guide at:\n# https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/cicd/templates.html\n# This specific template is located at:\n# https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Ruby.gitlab-ci.yml\n\n# Official language image. Look for the different tagged releases at:\n# https://hub.docker.com/r/library/ruby/tags/\nimage: ruby:latest\n\n# Pick zero or more services to be used on all builds.\n# Only needed when using a docker container to run your tests in.\n# Check out: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/services/index.html\nservices:\n  - mysql:latest\n  - redis:latest\n  - postgres:latest\n\nvariables:\n  POSTGRES_DB: database_name\n\n# Cache gems in between builds\ncache:\n  paths:\n    - vendor/ruby\n\n# This is a basic example for a gem or script which doesn't use\n# services such as redis or postgres\nbefore_script:\n  - ruby -v  # Print out ruby version for debugging\n  # Uncomment next line if your rails app needs a JS runtime:\n  # - apt-get update -q \u0026\u0026 apt-get install nodejs -yqq\n  - bundle config set --local deployment true  # Install dependencies into ./vendor/ruby\n  - bundle install -j $(nproc)\n\n# Optional - Delete if not using `rubocop`\nrubocop:\n  script:\n    - rubocop\n\nrspec:\n  script:\n    - rspec spec\n\nrails:\n  variables:\n    DATABASE_URL: \"postgresql://postgres:postgres@postgres:5432/$POSTGRES_DB\"\n  script:\n    - rails db:migrate\n    - rails db:seed\n    - rails test\n\n# This deploy job uses a simple deploy flow to Heroku, other providers, e.g. AWS Elastic Beanstalk\n# are supported too: https://github.com/travis-ci/dpl\ndeploy:\n  stage: deploy\n  environment: production\n  script:\n    - gem install dpl\n    - dpl --provider=heroku --app=$HEROKU_APP_NAME --api-key=$HEROKU_PRODUCTION_KEY\n"
}