Search GitLab projects via x402 micropayment — part of Scout's 19+ platform intelligence API.
What it does
The Scout GitLab endpoint (`/scout/gitlab`) searches GitLab.com for public projects by keyword, returning project name, description, stars, forks, topics, and last activity date. It is one of 19+ source-specific endpoints in the Scout Multi-source Intelligence API, which also covers GitHub, Hacker News, npm, PyPI, Stack Overflow, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, X/Twitter, Product Hunt, Dev.to, Hashnode, Lobsters, Lemmy, Reddit, YouTube, Zenn, Qiita, and the x402 Bazaar.
The endpoint accepts a required `q` query parameter plus optional `per_page` (1–20, default 10) and `sort` (stars, updated, or name; default stars). It costs $0.005 per call in USDC on Base, settled via the x402 protocol. A sample 402 challenge response confirms the endpoint is live and returns structured JSON with project metadata. Alternative access methods include a broker API key (no wallet needed), an MCP server at mcp.hugen.tokyo, and a Python SDK (`x402-pay`).
Scout also offers aggregated report endpoints (`/scout/report` at $0.005 for 14 free sources, `/scout/report/full` at $0.25 for all 18 sources) and AI-synthesized deep research endpoints (`/scout/research` at $0.25, `/scout/research/deep` at $0.50) that include GitLab results alongside all other sources. The GitLab endpoint is useful for discovering enterprise open-source projects and repositories not hosted on GitHub.
Capabilities
Use cases
- —Discovering open-source projects hosted on GitLab rather than GitHub
- —Comparing project popularity across GitLab and GitHub for market research
- —Finding enterprise OSS repositories by keyword and sorting by stars or recent activity
- —Feeding GitLab project metadata into an AI agent's research pipeline
- —Aggregating code-hosting intelligence across multiple platforms via Scout reports
Fit
Best for
- —AI agents needing programmatic GitLab search with micropayment access
- —Developers exploring enterprise and non-GitHub open-source ecosystems
- —Multi-platform code intelligence gathering in a single API family
- —Low-cost per-query project discovery without GitLab API tokens
Not for
- —Searching private or internal GitLab instances (only covers gitlab.com public projects)
- —Full repository content retrieval or code-level search within files
- —High-volume bulk scraping — per-call payment model adds up at scale
Quick start
curl -s 'https://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/gitlab?q=kubernetes&per_page=5&sort=stars' \
-H 'X-Payment: <x402_payment_header>'Example
Request
{
"url": "https://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/gitlab?q=kubernetes&per_page=5&sort=stars",
"method": "GET"
}Response
{
"count": 1,
"query": "kubernetes",
"source": "gitlab",
"results": [
{
"name": "gitlab-ci-kubernetes",
"stars": 850,
"language": "Go"
}
]
}Endpoint
Quality
Full OpenAPI schema with clear parameter definitions and pricing. The 402 challenge confirms the endpoint is live and returns structured data. However, no dedicated docs page exists, the response schema is only partially visible from the sample challenge, and no detailed field-level response documentation is available.
Warnings
- —No dedicated documentation page found (/docs, /api, /pricing all return 404)
- —Response schema inferred from a single sample in the 402 challenge; full field list may differ
- —Only public gitlab.com projects are searchable; private instances are not supported
Citations
- —The endpoint searches GitLab.com for public projects and returns name, description, stars, forks, topics, and last activity datehttps://scout.hugen.tokyo
- —Costs $0.005 per call (described as $0.01 in the 402 challenge notice, $0.005 in the OpenAPI spec)https://scout.hugen.tokyo
- —Scout covers 19+ platforms including GitHub, Hacker News, npm, PyPI, X/Twitter, and morehttps://scout.hugen.tokyo
- —Alternative access via broker API key, MCP server, and x402-pay Python SDKhttps://scout.hugen.tokyo