The Python Package Index (PyPI) is the official third-party software repository for Python. Use the GitLab PyPI package registry to publish and share Python packages in your GitLab projects, groups, and organizations. This integration enables you to manage your Python dependencies alongside your code, providing a seamless workflow for Python development within GitLab.
The package registry works with:
For documentation of the specific API endpoints that the pip
and twine
clients use, see the PyPI API documentation.
Learn how to build a PyPI package.
Package request forwarding security noticeWhen using the GitLab PyPI package registry, package requests that cannot be found in the GitLab registry are automatically forwarded to pypi.org. This behavior can result in packages being downloaded from pypi.org, even when using the --index-url
flag.
For maximum security when working with private packages:
--index-url
and --no-index
flags when installing packages.Before you interact with the GitLab package registry, you must authenticate with it.
You can authenticate with:
api
.read_package_registry
, write_package_registry
, or both.Do not use authentication methods other than the methods documented here. Undocumented authentication methods might be removed in the future.
To authenticate with a GitLab token:
TWINE_USERNAME
and TWINE_PASSWORD
environment variables.For example:
run:
image: python:latest
variables:
TWINE_USERNAME: <personal_access_token_name>
TWINE_PASSWORD: <personal_access_token>
script:
- pip install build twine
- python -m build
- python -m twine upload --repository-url ${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/packages/pypi dist/*
run:
image: python:latest
variables:
TWINE_USERNAME: <deploy_token_username>
TWINE_PASSWORD: <deploy_token>
script:
- pip install build twine
- python -m build
- python -m twine upload --repository-url ${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/packages/pypi dist/*
run:
image: python:latest
variables:
TWINE_USERNAME: gitlab-ci-token
TWINE_PASSWORD: $CI_JOB_TOKEN
script:
- pip install build twine
- python -m build
- python -m twine upload --repository-url ${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/packages/pypi dist/*
Authenticate for a group
To authenticate with the package registry for a group:
https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/<group_id>/-/packages/pypi
Publish a PyPI package
You can publish a package with twine.
Prerequisites:
description
of 4000 characters or less. Longer description
strings are truncated.400 Bad Request
.PyPI packages are published using your project ID. If your project is in a group, PyPI packages published to the project registry are also available in the group registry. For more information, see Install from a group.
To publish a package:
Define your repository source, edit the ~/.pypirc
file and add:
[distutils]
index-servers =
gitlab
[gitlab]
repository = https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/packages/pypi
Upload your package with twine:
python3 -m twine upload --repository gitlab dist/*
When a package is published successfully, a message like this is displayed:
Uploading distributions to https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/packages/pypi
Uploading mypypipackage-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl
100%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 4.58k/4.58k [00:00<00:00, 10.9kB/s]
Uploading mypypipackage-0.0.1.tar.gz
100%|███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 4.24k/4.24k [00:00<00:00, 11.0kB/s]
The package is published to the package registry, and is shown on the Packages and registries page.
Publish with inline authenticationIf you didn’t use a .pypirc
file to define your repository source, you can publish to the repository with inline authentication:
TWINE_PASSWORD=<personal_access_token, deploy_token, or $CI_JOB_TOKEN> \
TWINE_USERNAME=<username, deploy_token_username, or gitlab-ci-token> \
python3 -m twine upload --repository-url https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/packages/pypi dist/*
Publishing packages with the same name and version
You cannot publish a package if a package of the same name and version already exists. You must delete the existing package first. If you attempt to publish the same package more than once, a 400 Bad Request
error occurs.
By default, when a PyPI package is not found in the GitLab package registry, the request is forwarded to pypi.org. This behavior:
--index-url
flagAdministrators can disable this behavior globally in the Continuous Integration settings. Group Owners can disable this behavior for specific groups in the Packages and registries section of the group settings.
When you use the --index-url
option, do not specify the port if it is a default port. http
URLs default to 80, and https
URLs default to 443.
To install the latest version of a package, use the following command:
pip install --index-url https://<personal_access_token_name>:<personal_access_token>@gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/packages/pypi/simple --no-deps <package_name>
<package_name>
is the package name.<personal_access_token_name>
is a personal access token name with the read_api
scope.<personal_access_token>
is a personal access token with the read_api
scope.<project_id>
is either the project’s URL-encoded path (for example, group%2Fproject
), or the project’s ID (for example 42
).In these commands, you can use --extra-index-url
instead of --index-url
. If you were following the guide and want to install the MyPyPiPackage
package, you can run:
pip install mypypipackage --no-deps --index-url https://<personal_access_token_name>:<personal_access_token>@gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/packages/pypi/simple
This message indicates that the package was installed successfully:
Looking in indexes: https://<personal_access_token_name>:****@gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/packages/pypi/simple
Collecting mypypipackage
Downloading https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/packages/pypi/files/d53334205552a355fee8ca35a164512ef7334f33d309e60240d57073ee4386e6/mypypipackage-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (1.6 kB)
Installing collected packages: mypypipackage
Successfully installed mypypipackage-0.0.1
Install from a group
To install the latest version of a package from a group, use the following command:
pip install --index-url https://<personal_access_token_name>:<personal_access_token>@gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/<group_id>/-/packages/pypi/simple --no-deps <package_name>
In this command:
<package_name>
is the package name.<personal_access_token_name>
is a personal access token name with the read_api
scope.<personal_access_token>
is a personal access token with the read_api
scope.<group_id>
is the group ID.In these commands, you can use --extra-index-url
instead of --index-url
. If you’re following the guide and want to install the MyPyPiPackage
package, you can run:
pip install mypypipackage --no-deps --index-url https://<personal_access_token_name>:<personal_access_token>@gitlab.example.com/api/v4/groups/<group_id>/-/packages/pypi/simple
Package names
GitLab looks for packages that use Python normalized names (PEP-503). The characters -
, _
, and .
are all treated the same, and repeated characters are removed.
A pip install
request for my.package
looks for packages that match any of the three characters, such as my-package
, my_package
, and my....package
.
The security implications of using --extra-index-url
versus --index-url
when installing PyPI packages are significant and worth understanding in detail:
--index-url
: This option replaces the default PyPI index URL with the specified URL. The GitLab package forwarding setting, which is turned on by default, might still download packages not found in the package registry from PyPI. To ensure packages are only installed from GitLab, either:
--index-url
and --no-index
flags together--extra-index-url
: This option adds an additional index to search, alongside the default PyPI index. It’s less secure and more open to dependency confusion attacks, because it checks both the default PyPI and the additional index for packages.When using private packages, keep in mind the following best practices:
--no-index
and --index-url
flags together when installing private packages.pip debug
.requirements.txt
If you want pip to access your public registry, add the --extra-index-url
parameter along with the URL for your registry to your requirements.txt
file.
--extra-index-url https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/packages/pypi/simple
package-name==1.0.0
If this is a private registry, you can authenticate in a couple of ways. For example:
Using your requirements.txt
file:
--extra-index-url https://gitlab-ci-token:<personal_token>@gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/<project_id>/packages/pypi/simple
package-name==1.0.0
Using a ~/.netrc
file:
machine gitlab.example.com
login gitlab-ci-token
password <personal_token>
Proper versioning is important for managing PyPI packages effectively. Follow these best practices to ensure your packages are versioned correctly.
Use semantic versioning (SemVer)Adopt semantic versioning for your packages. The version number should be in the format MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH
:
MAJOR
version for incompatible API changes.MINOR
version for backwards-compatible new features.PATCH
version for backwards-compatible bug fixes.For example: 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.1.1.
For new projects, start with version 0.1.0. This indicates an initial development phase where the API is not yet stable.
Use valid version stringsEnsure your version string is valid according to PyPI standards. GitLab uses a specific regex to validate version strings:
\A(?:
v?
(?:([0-9]+)!)? (?# epoch)
([0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)*) (?# release segment)
([-_\.]?((a|b|c|rc|alpha|beta|pre|preview))[-_\.]?([0-9]+)?)? (?# pre-release)
((?:-([0-9]+))|(?:[-_\.]?(post|rev|r)[-_\.]?([0-9]+)?))? (?# post release)
([-_\.]?(dev)[-_\.]?([0-9]+)?)? (?# dev release)
(?:\+([a-z0-9]+(?:[-_\.][a-z0-9]+)*))? (?# local version)
)\z}xi
You can experiment with the regex and try your version strings by using this regular expression editor.
For more details about the regex, see the Python documentation.
Supported CLI commandsThe GitLab PyPI repository supports the following CLI commands:
twine upload
: Upload a package to the registry.pip install
: Install a PyPI package from the registry.To improve performance, the pip command caches files related to a package. Pip doesn’t remove data by itself. The cache grows as new packages are installed. If you encounter issues, clear the cache with this command:
You can define multiple index-url
and extra-index-url
parameters.
If you use the same domain name (such as gitlab.example.com
) multiple times with different authentication tokens, pip
may not be able to find your packages. This problem is due to how pip
registers and stores your tokens during commands executions.
To workaround this issue, you can use a group deploy token with the scope read_package_registry
from a common parent group for all projects or groups targeted by the index-url
and extra-index-url
values.
If packages are being installed from PyPI when you intended to use only the GitLab registry:
--no-index
and --index-url
flags together to prevent PyPI fallback.pip debug
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