Namespaces

Usernames and groupnames fall under a special category called namespaces.

For users and groups supported API calls see the users and groups documentation respectively.

List namespaces

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 -H "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 -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/namespaces?search=twitter

Example response:

[
  {
    "id": 4,
    "path": "twitter",
    "kind": "group"
  }
]