Listing GitLab Repositories name using GitLab api - gitlab

Question

I want to list only GitLab repositories name using GitLab API.
i tried command curl "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects?private_token=*************"
it is listing all merge requests, issues and also repository names.
How can i list only the repository names?

Answer 1

As Igor mentioned the Gitlab API does not let you to limit the response to a single field.
I would recommend combining the original API call with the jq command.
This will enable parsing of the returned json
curl "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects?private_token=*************" | jq '.[].name'

Answer 2

There's no way to limit the response to a single field only via API, but there's simple option to return minimal set of fields:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/projects.html#list-all-projects
curl "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects?simple=true&private_token=*************" would return something like:
[
{
"id": 4,
"description": null,
"default_branch": "master",
"ssh_url_to_repo": "git#example.com:diaspora/diaspora-client.git",
"http_url_to_repo": "http://example.com/diaspora/diaspora-client.git",
"web_url": "http://example.com/diaspora/diaspora-client",
"readme_url": "http://example.com/diaspora/diaspora-client/blob/master/README.md",
"tag_list": [ //deprecated, use `topics` instead
"example",
"disapora client"
],
"topics": [
"example",
"disapora client"
],
"name": "Diaspora Client",
"name_with_namespace": "Diaspora / Diaspora Client",
"path": "diaspora-client",
"path_with_namespace": "diaspora/diaspora-client",
"created_at": "2013-09-30T13:46:02Z",
"last_activity_at": "2013-09-30T13:46:02Z",
"forks_count": 0,
"avatar_url": "http://example.com/uploads/project/avatar/4/uploads/avatar.png",
"star_count": 0
},
{
"id": 6,
"description": null,
"default_branch": "master",
...