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Gitlab: Clone / Pull all projects in a group
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Documentation
# https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/projects.html#list-projects
NAMESPACE="YOUR_NAMESPACE"
BASE_PATH="https://gitlab.example.com/"
PROJECT_SEARCH_PARAM=""
PROJECT_SELECTION="select(.namespace.name == \"$NAMESPACE\")"
PROJECT_PROJECTION="{ "path": .path, "git": .ssh_url_to_repo }"
if [ -z "$GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN" ]; then
echo "Please set the environment variable GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN"
echo "See ${BASE_PATH}profile/account"
exit 1
fi
FILENAME="repos.json"
trap "{ rm -f $FILENAME; }" EXIT
curl -s "${BASE_PATH}api/v3/projects?private_token=$GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN&search=$PROJECT_SEARCH_PARAM&per_page=999" \
| jq --raw-output --compact-output ".[] | $PROJECT_SELECTION | $PROJECT_PROJECTION" > "$FILENAME"
while read repo; do
THEPATH=$(echo "$repo" | jq -r ".path")
GIT=$(echo "$repo" | jq -r ".git")
if [ ! -d "$THEPATH" ]; then
echo "Cloning $THEPATH ( $GIT )"
git clone "$GIT" --quiet &
else
echo "Pulling $THEPATH"
(cd "$THEPATH" && git pull --quiet) &
fi
done < "$FILENAME"
wait
@romancin
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romancin commented Aug 6, 2019

Lots of good solutions detailed above. However, you can also try using ghorg which is small cli that will do most of the work for you. It supports github, gitlab, and bitbucket.

This doesn't seem to work with GitLab Community edition, only gitlab.com, right?

@angristan
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I opened an issue on ghorg and you can now specify your gitlab instance: gabrie30/ghorg#41

Also: https://github.com/angristan/gitlab-repo-dl

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ezbz commented Jan 5, 2021

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Lots of good solutions detailed above. However, you can also try using ghorg which is small cli that will do most of the work for you. It supports github, gitlab, and bitbucket.

This doesn't seem to work with GitLab Community edition, only gitlab.com, right?

No, it supports all gitlab installations. If you run into any problems feel free to raise issue.

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ozaydinb commented Apr 4, 2022

https://github.com/ozaydinb/gitlab-clonner I was inspired by this gist. my version is to clone all projects and sub-projects to different directories. it works for me, without any issue.

@MeenalMis
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Hey @JonasGroeger , when I tried using your script, got an error of "parse error: Invalid numeric literal at line 1, column 16". Not sure exactly what Iam giving wrong, here is the snippet of my code -

#!/usr/bin/env bash

Documentation

https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/projects.html#list-projects

NAMESPACE="fsgbu-pbsm/fsgbu-ofspacs/dimension-management"
GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN="xxxx7fcxx32xxxxw4xx"
BASE_PATH="https://cloudlab.us.oracle.com/"
PROJECT_SEARCH_PARAM=""
PROJECT_SELECTION="select(.namespace.name == "$NAMESPACE")"
PROJECT_PROJECTION="{ "path": .path, "git": .ssh_url_to_repo }"

if [ -z "$GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN" ]; then
echo "Please set the environment variable GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN"
echo "See ${BASE_PATH}profile/account"
exit 1
fi

FILENAME="repos.json"
............

Note-> I need to pull all subgroups under group dimension-management.

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adroste commented Nov 17, 2022

I wanted to clone also subgroups while keeping the tree structure. Since none of the solutions worked flawless, I wrote my own simple script => https://github.com/adroste/gitlab-clone-group

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