GitLab Has a Free Container Registry, Package Registry, and API — Here's What GitHub Doesn't Tell You

GitLab gives you a complete CI/CD platform, container registry, package registry, AND a full-featured API. All free for public and private repos. Here's what most developers don't know you can do with it. The API: No Rate Limit Pain Base URL: https://gitlab.com/api/v4/ Unlike GitHub (60 req/hour unauthenticated), GitLab gives you 2,000 requests per minute with a personal access token. Search Any Public Project curl "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects?search=kubernetes&order_by=stars&sort=desc" | jq '.[0] | {name, star_count, web_url}' { "name" : "kubernetes" , "star_count" : 2341 , "web_url" : "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/kubernetes" } Get Repository File Contents (No Clone Needed) curl "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/278964/repository/files/README.md/raw?ref=main" Read any file from any public repo without cloning. Project ID 278964 is GitLab itself. List All CI/CD Pipelines curl -H "PRIVATE-TOKEN: your_token" \ "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/:id/pipelines?status=failed&per