pygitlab

A tool for creating multiple GitLab accounts and automatically add them to groups. It uses [pycurl] (https://github.com/pycurl/pycurl) for account creation and the GitLab API via [python-gitlab] (https://github.com/gpocentek/python-gitlab) for adding accounts to user groups.

Why not use [GitLab API] (http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/ci/README.html) for creating accounts?

The [GitLab API] (http://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/ci/README.html) does only support creation of accounts with an password set. The HTTP interface of GitLab does suppoert this. As this is one of the main reasons for this tool, it is necessary to use the HTTP interface. There is also an [issue on GitLab] (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/1051) for this.

Features

• Creates a given set of accounts (without the need of setting a password) and adds them to specified groups
• Adds existing accounts to specfied groups

Usage

Linux

pip3 install python-gitlab pycurl
git clone https://github.com/baderas/pygitlab.git
cd pygitlab.git 
chmod +x pygitlab.py
./pygitlab.py -h

Windows

Open Admin CMD
"c:\Program Files\Python35\Scripts\pip.exe" install python-gitlab pycurl
Open Bash or CMD
git clone https://github.com/baderas/pygitlab.git
cd pygitlab.git 
"c:\Program Files\Python35\python.exe" pygitlab.py -h

Synopsis

pygitlab.py [-h] -f CSVFILE [-a] [-g] [-d] [-c CONFIGFILE]

Reads a CSV file and adds new users to gitlab or adds users to groups.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -f CSVFILE, --csvfile CSVFILE
                        CSV file to read from
  -a, --adduser         Create users.
  -g, --addtogroup      Add users to groups.
  -d, --dryrun          Only emulate what would be done.
  -c CONFIGFILE, --configfile CONFIGFILE
                        Config file to read from

Config File Format

pygitlab uses a config file to store credentials. See gitlab.cfg.

Config Files of python-gitlab can not be used, they do not support log in with username and password.

[default]
url= # enter gitlab url without / at the end
email=
password=
ssl_verify=false
timeout=10

CSV File Format

Important: The CSV file must be encoded in UTF-8. The column with "1" or "0" decides wheter a user can create groups or not. See test_addusers.csv and test_addtogroup.csv.

Creating accounts

mail,username,realname,1,group1,guest,group2,owner,group3,reporter,group4,guest
mail,username,realname,0,group1,guest,group2,owner,group3,group4,guest
mail,username,realname,1,group1,group2,guest
mail,username,realname,0
mail,username,realname,1,group1
mail,username,realname,1,group1,group2
mail,username,realname,0,group1,group2,group3

Adding accounts to groups

username,group1
username,group1,group2
username,group1,guest,group2,owner,group3,reporter,group4,guest
username,group1,guest,group2,owner,group3,group4,guest
username,group1,group2,group3