Get repository languages with the GitLab API

Question

I would like to know if there is a way to get the languages (percentage per language) used in a project by using the API provided by GitLab. I checked their documentation but I didn't see anything about that or maybe I missed it.

I know that they use the Linguist library but I'm developping an application that's is not in Ruby and I'm looking for a way to integrate theses percentages.

Answer 1

As of 10.8.x, Gitlab added a new API entrypoint, exposing languages used in a specific repository.

Usage is straight forward :

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <__ACCESS_TOKEN__>" https://gitlab.mydomain.com/api/v4/projects/<ID>/languages

docs : https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/projects.html#languages

Hope this helps!