Backup of Gitlab repositories

If you ever had to download or backup your Gitlab repositories, you would probably have to do that manually for every repository you own. As of this writing, I had 54 and that was not my idea of a lazy afternoon. So I used the Gitlab API and with the help of Gitlab ‘Private Token’ setup this Python script to do the job for me.

import requests
import json
import os

def get_repo(repo):
    os.system("git clone " + repo)

def get_repos(r):
    res = json.loads(r.text)
    #print(res)

    for cnt,elem in enumerate(res):
        #print(elem)
        print(cnt, " --- ",elem['id'], elem['name'], elem['ssh_url_to_repo'])
        get_repo(elem['ssh_url_to_repo'])
        

headers = {'PRIVATE-TOKEN': YOUR_GITLAB_TOKEN}
#r = requests.get("https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects?visibility=private&order_by=name&per_page=100", headers=headers)
#get_repos(r)

r = requests.get("https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects?membership=yes&order_by=name&per_page=100", headers=headers)
get_repos(r)