Find the project ID for the GitLab API

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I use GitLab on their servers. I would like to download my latest built artifacts (build via GitLab CI) via the API like this:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" "https://gitlab.com/api/v3/projects/1/builds/8/artifacts"

Where do I find this project ID? Or is this way of using the API not intended for hosted GitLab projects?

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I just found out an even easier way to get the project id: just see the HTML content of the gitlab page hosting your project. There is an input with a field called project_id, e.g:

<input type="hidden" name="project_id" id="project_id" value="335" />

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You can find the token by doing the following from gitlab.com

Click on the project you are working on from the starting screen
Click "Settings" on the left hand navigation
Scroll down to the bottom and click "CI / CD" which is nested in Settings
Under the "Runners" section click expand
Token is hidden here.

Took me 10 minutes to find this... not documented anywhere.

Use GitLab API from a GitLabCI build script

You can have read-only access with the API from the runner, but only if you add a header with the CI_JOB_TOKEN.

e.g.

curl -H "JOB_TOKEN: $CI_JOB_TOKEN" "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/2828837/repository/tags

And only when the project is public with everyone has access from the same project.

If you want access to private projects as well and/or write access, please up-vote GitLab issue #29566 and/or #41084.

As an alternative for the time being, you can create an access token on gitlab, and add it to the secret variables, under project settings/ci_cd although not really advised to do as your personal access token will be used by everyone who trigger the job.

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