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).