How to bulk upload 100+ users to a single gitlab group at once?

Question

I have to create new groups and add new users to the respective groups every week. Adding them one by one is tiresome. Anyway I can bulk upload the users? I have their username and the email id.

Answer 1

You should use gitlab users api

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/users.html

You can easily create new users

Creates a new user. Note only administrators can create new users. Either password or reset_password should be specified (reset_password takes priority).

POST /users

Parameters:

• email (required)
• Emailpassword (optional)
• Passwordreset_password (optional) - Send user password reset link - true or false(default)
• username (required)
• Usernamename (required) - real name
• ...