How to clone all projects of a group at once in GitLab?

Question

In my GitLab repository, I have a group with 20 projects. I want to clone all projects at once. Is that possible?

Answer 1

If you are okay with some shell sorecery this will clone all the repos grouped by their group-id (you need jq and parallel)

seq 3                                                                           \
| parallel curl -s "'https://[gitlabUrl]/api/v4/projects?page={}&per_page=100&private_token=[privateToken]'
                     | jq '.[] | .ssh_url_to_repo, .name, .namespace.path'" \
| tr -d '"'                                                                 \
| awk '{ printf "%s ", $0; if (NR % 3 == 0) print " " }'                    \
| parallel --colsep ' ' 'mkdir -p {2} && git clone {1} {3}/{2}'