Project snippets

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 the snippet creator
internal	The snippet is visible for any logged in user
public	The snippet can be accessed without any authentication

NOTE: 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:

• id (required) - 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:

• id (required) - The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
• snippet_id (required) - 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:

• id (required) - The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
• title (required) - The title of a snippet
• file_name (required) - The name of a snippet file
• description (optional) - The description of a snippet
• content (required) - The content of a snippet
• visibility (required) - The snippet's visibility

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",
  "file_name" : "example.txt",
  "content" : "source code \n with multiple lines\n",
  "visibility" : "private"
}

Update snippet

Updates an existing project snippet. The user must have permission to change an existing snippet.

PUT /projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id

Parameters:

• id (required) - The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
• snippet_id (required) - The ID of a project's snippet
• title (optional) - The title of a snippet
• file_name (optional) - The name of a snippet file
• description (optional) - The description of a snippet
• content (optional) - The content of a snippet
• visibility (optional) - The snippet's visibility

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",
  "file_name" : "new_filename.txt",
  "content" : "updated source code \n with multiple lines\n",
  "visibility" : "private"
}

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:

• id (required) - The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
• snippet_id (required) - 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:

• id (required) - The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
• snippet_id (required) - 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:

• id (required) - The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
• snippet_id (required) - The ID of a project's snippet
• ref (required) - The name of a branch, tag or commit e.g. master
• file_path (required) - The URL-encoded path to the file, e.g. 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

Introduced in GitLab 9.4.

Available only for admins.

GET /projects/:id/snippets/:snippet_id/user_agent_detail

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
id	Integer	yes	The ID of a project
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
}