General information about api’s and tools to test website https://www.guru99.com/testing-rest-api-manually.html

Gitlab API Docs

Gitlab website for information https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/README.html

Testing with curl

curl "https://gitlab.gnome.org/api/v4/

then use the docs on the website for the endpoints and just add onto the above curl command.

example to get list of projects.

curl "https://gitlab.gnome.org/api/v4/projects"

Firefox extension

website for the extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/rester/

Software mto install on windows, mac and linux

website for the software https://insomnia.rest/

Electron app

Advanced rest client github website https://github.com/advanced-rest-client/arc-electron

Personal access tokens

You can use a personal access token to authenticate with the API by passing it in either the private_token parameter or the Private-Token header.

Example of using the personal access token in a parameter

curl https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects?private_token=9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK

Example of using the personal access token in a header

curl --header "Private-Token: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects