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

An updated Python 3 script that accomplishes this really effectively using Gitlab's latest api and proper pagination:

import requests
import subprocess, shlex
import os

print('Starting getrepos process..')

key = '12345678901234567890' # your gitlab key
base_url = 'https://your.gitlab.url/api/v4/projects?simple=true&per_page=10&private_token='
url = base_url + key

base_dir = os.getcwd()

while True:
    print('\n\nRetrieving from ' + url)
    response = requests.get(url, verify = False)
    projects = response.json()

    for project in projects:
        project_name = project['name']
        project_path = project['namespace']['full_path']
        project_url = project['ssh_url_to_repo']

        os.chdir(base_dir)
        print('\nProcessing %s...' % project_name)

        try:
            print('Moving into directory: %s' % project_path)
            os.makedirs(project_path, exist_ok = True)
            os.chdir(project_path)
            cmd = shlex.split('git clone --mirror %s' % project_url)
            subprocess.run(cmd)
        except Exception as e:
            print('Error: ' + e.strerror)

    if 'next' not in response.links:
        break

    url = response.links['next']['url'].replace('127.0.0.1:9999', 'your.gitlab.url')


print('\nDone')

Requires the requests library (for navigating to the page links).

Answer 2

An alternative based on Dmitriy's answer -- in the case you were to clone repositories in a whole group tree recursively.

#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
import sys
import gitlab
import subprocess

glab = gitlab.Gitlab(f'https://{sys.argv[1]}', f'{sys.argv[3]}')
groups = glab.groups.list()
root = sys.argv[2]

def visit(group):
    name = group.name
    real_group = glab.groups.get(group.id)

    os.mkdir(name)
    os.chdir(name) 

    clone(real_group.projects.list(all=True))

    for child in real_group.subgroups.list():
        visit(child)

    os.chdir("../")

def clone(projects):
    for repo in projects:
        command = f'git clone {repo.ssh_url_to_repo}'
        process = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
        output, _ = process.communicate()
        process.wait()

glab = gitlab.Gitlab(f'https://{sys.argv[1]}', f'{sys.argv[3]}')
groups = glab.groups.list()
root = sys.argv[2]

for group in groups:
    if group.name == root:
        visit(group)

Answer 3

You can refer to this ruby script here: https://gist.github.com/thegauraw/da2a3429f19f603cf1c9b3b09553728b

But you need to make sure that you have the link to the organization gitlab url (which looks like: https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/ for example organization) and private token (which looks like: QALWKQFAGZDWQYDGHADS and you can get in: https://gitlab.example.com/profile/account once you are logged in). Also do make sure that you have httparty gem installed or gem install httparty

Answer 4

I built a script (curl, git, jq required) just for that. We use it and it works just fine: https://gist.github.com/JonasGroeger/1b5155e461036b557d0fb4b3307e1e75

To find out your namespace, its best to check the API quick:

curl "https://domain.com/api/v3/projects?private_token=$GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN"

There, use "namespace.name" as NAMESPACE for your group.

The script essentially does:

1. Get all Projects that match your PROJECT_SEARCH_PARAM

2. Get their path and ssh_url_to_repo

   2.1. If the directory path exists, cd into it and call git pull

   2.2. If the directory path does not exist, call git clone

Answer 5

Yep it's possible, here is the code.

prerequisites:

pip install python-gitlab

#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
import sys
import gitlab
import subprocess

glab = gitlab.Gitlab(f'https://{sys.argv[1]}', f'{sys.argv[3]}')
groups = glab.groups.list()
groupname = sys.argv[2]
for group in groups:
    if group.name == groupname:
        projects = group.projects.list(all=True)

for repo in projects:
    command = f'git clone {repo.ssh_url_to_repo}'
    process = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
    output, _ = process.communicate()
    process.wait()

Example:

• create .py file (ex. gitlab-downloader.py)
• copy-paste code from above
• on Linux OS (or OSX) do chmod +x on the script file (ex. chmod +x gitlab-downloader.py)
• run it with 3 params: Gitlab hostname, groupname, your Personal Access Token(see https://gitlab.exmaple.com/profile/personal_access_tokens)

Answer 6

There is a tool called myrepos, which manages multiple version controls repositories. Updating all repositories simply requires one command:

mr update

In order to register all gitlab projects to mr, here is a small python script. It requires the package python-gitlab installed:

import os
from subprocess import call
from gitlab import Gitlab

# Register a connection to a gitlab instance, using its URL and a user private token
gl = Gitlab('http://192.168.123.107', 'JVNSESs8EwWRx5yDxM5q')
groupsToSkip = ['aGroupYouDontWantToBeAdded']

gl.auth() # Connect to get the current user

gitBasePathRelative = "git/"
gitBasePathRelativeAbsolut = os.path.expanduser("~/" + gitBasePathRelative)
os.makedirs(gitBasePathRelativeAbsolut,exist_ok=True)

for p in gl.Project():
    if not any(p.namespace.path in s for s in groupsToSkip):
        pathToFolder = gitBasePathRelative + p.namespace.name + "/" + p.name
        commandArray = ["mr", "config", pathToFolder, "checkout=git clone '" + p.ssh_url_to_repo + "' '" + p.name + "'"]
        call(commandArray)

os.chdir(gitBasePathRelativeAbsolut)

call(["mr", "update"])