We're gonna learn how to use python to talk to external applications. The application in our case will be GitLab. We'll establish a communication between out python application and GitLab application The python application will send a http request to GitLab application and then the Python application will get a http response from the GitLab application. To send an API request to GitLab, follow the steps:

Install requests Package:

First install the requests package by using pip install requests command in the terminal.

Code:

import requests

response = requests.get("https://gitlab.com/api/v4/users/[gitlab-username]/projects")

all_projects = response.json()

for project in all_projects:
    print(f"Project ID: {project['id']}")
    print(f"Project Name: {project['name']}")
    print(f"Project URL: {project['web_url']} ")
    print(f"Date of Creation: {project['created_at']}")
    print("   ")

Explanation:

1. import requests: This imports the requests module, which is a popular HTTP library in Python used for making HTTP requests.

2. response = requests.get("https://gitlab.com/api/v4/users/abdullah-k18/projects"): This line sends an HTTP GET request to the specified URL (https://gitlab.com/api/v4/users/abdullah-k18/projects) using the requests.get() function and assigns the response object to the variable response. This URL is an API endpoint that retrieves a list of projects owned by the user with username "abdullah-k18" on GitLab.

3. all_projects = response.json(): This line calls the json() method on the response object to parse the JSON-formatted data returned by the API endpoint. The parsed JSON data is then assigned to the variable all_projects.

4. for project in all_projects:: This is the beginning of a for loop that iterates over each project in the all_projects list.

5. Inside the for loop there are some things that we will be printing. These will be the details of each project e.g. id, name, url, date created.

Output:

My GitLab: