(analogous to T1740, but for repos hosted on GitLab instances)
Info about an individual repository (called "project" in GitLab terminology) can be obtained using the [[ https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/projects.html#get-single-project | /projects endpoint ]], e.g.:
```
curl --silent "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/gitlab-org%2Fgitlab-foss" | jq
{
"id": 13083,
"description": "GitLab FOSS is a read-only mirror of GitLab, with all proprietary code removed. This project was previously used to host GitLab Community Edition, but all development has now moved to https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab.",
"name": "GitLab FOSS",
"name_with_namespace": "GitLab.org / GitLab FOSS",
"path": "gitlab-foss",
"path_with_namespace": "gitlab-org/gitlab-foss",
"created_at": "2013-09-26T06:02:36.000Z",
"default_branch": "master",
"tag_list": [],
"ssh_url_to_repo": "git@gitlab.com:gitlab-org/gitlab-foss.git",
"http_url_to_repo": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss.git",
"web_url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss",
"readme_url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/blob/master/README.md",
"avatar_url": "https://assets.gitlab-static.net/uploads/-/system/project/avatar/13083/logo-extra-whitespace.png",
"forks_count": 6208,
"star_count": 6486,
"last_activity_at": "2020-10-13T06:09:21.021Z",
"namespace": {
"id": 9970,
"name": "GitLab.org",
"path": "gitlab-org",
"kind": "group",
"full_path": "gitlab-org",
"parent_id": null,
"avatar_url": "/uploads/-/system/group/avatar/9970/logo-extra-whitespace.png",
"web_url": "https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org"
}
}
```