Project badges API

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Placeholder tokens

Badges support placeholders that are replaced in real-time in both the link and image URL. The allowed placeholders are:

%{project_path}: Replaced by the project path.
%{project_title}: Replaced by the project title.
%{project_name}: Replaced by the project name.
%{project_id}: Replaced by the project ID.
%{default_branch}: Replaced by the project default branch.
%{commit_sha}: Replaced by the last project's commit SHA.

List all badges of a project

Gets a list of a project's badges and its group badges.

GET /projects/:id/badges

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
`name`	string	no	Name of the badges to return (case-sensitive).

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/:id/badges?name=Coverage"

Example response:

[
  {
    "name": "Coverage",
    "id": 1,
    "link_url": "http://example.com/ci_status.svg?project=%{project_path}&ref=%{default_branch}",
    "image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge",
    "rendered_link_url": "http://example.com/ci_status.svg?project=example-org/example-project&ref=main",
    "rendered_image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge",
    "kind": "project"
  },
  {
    "name": "Pipeline",
    "id": 2,
    "link_url": "http://example.com/ci_status.svg?project=%{project_path}&ref=%{default_branch}",
    "image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge",
    "rendered_link_url": "http://example.com/ci_status.svg?project=example-org/example-project&ref=main",
    "rendered_image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge",
    "kind": "group"
  }
]

Get a badge of a project

Gets a badge of a project.

GET /projects/:id/badges/:badge_id

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
`badge_id`	integer	yes	The badge ID

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/:id/badges/:badge_id"

Example response:

{
  "name": "Coverage",
  "id": 1,
  "link_url": "http://example.com/ci_status.svg?project=%{project_path}&ref=%{default_branch}",
  "image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge",
  "rendered_link_url": "http://example.com/ci_status.svg?project=example-org/example-project&ref=main",
  "rendered_image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge",
  "kind": "project"
}

Add a badge to a project

Adds a badge to a project.

POST /projects/:id/badges

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
`link_url`	string	yes	URL of the badge link
`image_url`	string	yes	URL of the badge image
`name`	string	no	Name of the badge

curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" \
     --data "link_url=https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/commits/main&image_url=https://shields.io/my/badge1&name=mybadge" \
     "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/:id/badges"

Example response:

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "mybadge",
  "link_url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/commits/main",
  "image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge1",
  "rendered_link_url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/commits/main",
  "rendered_image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge1",
  "kind": "project"
}

Edit a badge of a project

Updates a badge of a project.

PUT /projects/:id/badges/:badge_id

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
`badge_id`	integer	yes	The badge ID
`link_url`	string	no	URL of the badge link
`image_url`	string	no	URL of the badge image
`name`	string	no	Name of the badge

curl --request PUT --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/:id/badges/:badge_id"

Example response:

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "mybadge",
  "link_url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/commits/main",
  "image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge",
  "rendered_link_url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/commits/main",
  "rendered_image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge",
  "kind": "project"
}

Remove a badge from a project

Removes a badge from a project. Only project badges are removed by using this endpoint.

DELETE /projects/:id/badges/:badge_id

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
`badge_id`	integer	yes	The badge ID

curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/:id/badges/:badge_id"

Preview a badge from a project

Returns how the link_url and image_url final URLs would be after resolving the placeholder interpolation.

GET /projects/:id/badges/render

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
`link_url`	string	yes	URL of the badge link
`image_url`	string	yes	URL of the badge image

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/:id/badges/render?link_url=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fci_status.svg%3Fproject%3D%25%7Bproject_path%7D%26ref%3D%25%7Bdefault_branch%7D&image_url=https%3A%2F%2Fshields.io%2Fmy%2Fbadge"

Example response:

{
  "link_url": "http://example.com/ci_status.svg?project=%{project_path}&ref=%{default_branch}",
  "image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge",
  "rendered_link_url": "http://example.com/ci_status.svg?project=example-org/example-project&ref=main",
  "rendered_image_url": "https://shields.io/my/badge"
}