Usernames and groupnames fall under a special category called namespaces.
For users and groups supported API calls see the users and groups documentation respectively.
Pagination is used.
Get a list of the namespaces of the authenticated user. If the user is an administrator, a list of all namespaces in the GitLab instance is shown.
GET /namespaces
Example request:
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/namespaces
Example response:
[
{
"id": 1,
"path": "user1",
"kind": "user"
},
{
"id": 2,
"path": "group1",
"kind": "group"
}
]
Get all namespaces that match a string in their name or path.
GET /namespaces?search=foobar
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
search |
string | no | Returns a list of namespaces the user is authorized to see based on the search criteria |
Example request:
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/namespaces?search=twitter
Example response:
[
{
"id": 4,
"path": "twitter",
"kind": "group"
}
]