Gitlab

About Gitlab

GitLab provides extensibility features for connecting to external tools and workflows, including webhooks for project and group event configuration, a REST API and a GraphQL API for programmatic interaction, and an OAuth 2.0 identity provider API for third-party authorization. It also offers editor and IDE extensions for Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, Eclipse, and Neovim, along with command-line interface tools: glab and a Duo CLI.

These tools are for developers and teams looking to integrate GitLab with existing systems, automate responses to events, or build custom applications on top of the platform. The REST API documentation covers requests, rate limits, pagination, encoding, versioning, and response handling.

Key features

• REST API for programmatic interaction with GitLab, including pagination, rate limits, and versioning
• GraphQL API for programmatic interaction with GitLab
• Webhooks for project and group event notifications
• OAuth 2.0 identity provider API for third-party authorization
• Editor and IDE extensions for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, Eclipse, and Neovim
• GitLab CLI (glab) and GitLab Duo CLI (duo) for command-line access

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