GitLab count total number of issues

Question

I would like to count all issues on my gitlab project using api.

Below the command that I'm using:

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN:xxxxxxx" https://gitlab.myapp.com/api/v4/groups/xx/issues?scope=all

I've also tried to replace groups with project.

We would like to bypass the pagination problem: the displayed results are always 100 (the max number).

How can we could get more than 100 ?

I would like to have as result only the total number of issue on my project.

Answer 1

for anyone interestered I fixed it with this:

1. get the project ids of my gitlab

   curl -s -L --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN:XXXXXX" "https://gitlab.XXXXX/api/v4/projects/"

combined with python -m json.tool and sed and jq and grep to get a list of ids and names.

then

I get the number of total pages of issues for project ids

curl -s --head --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN:XXXXXX" "https://gitlab.XXXXX/api/v4/projects/${id}/issues?state=all&per_pages=100"
    | grep "X-Total-Pages"

then I extract all the issues with a while cycle:

 curl -s --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN:XXXXX" "https://gitlab.XXXX/api/v4/projects/${id}/issues?scope=all&state=all&label_name\[\]=BU
    G&page=${i}&per_page=100"

$i is the page counter 

I hope this could help someone else!

If you have questions, feel free to ask!