API requests on fetching job's artifacts returns message 404 not found

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I’m trying to list artifacts for a job. It does have artifacts - what I can see in https://gitlab.com/<namespace>/<group>/<project>/-/artifacts page:

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However, I cannot neither get nor delete artifacts using API calls from the documentation:

because this request:

$ curl --request GET --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: ${CI_JOB_TOKEN}" "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<ID>/jobs/<JID>/artifacts"

returns:

{"message":"404 Not Found"}

If I remove the /artifacts part from the "https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/<ID>/jobs/<JID>/artifacts" URL, it returns the job.

Any ideas?

2

I found the problem. The artifacts pages shows 1 file where there are actually no files. That file is the job.log one and it’s not available for the API calls. So when I tried to request artifacts for other jobs with more files it worked. Both GET and POST requests.

3

Also note that any artifact you want to download must be present in the paths array, too.

I almost went mad because this wouldn’t give me the metrics to download via the API, but only in the GUI:

jobx:
  artifacts:
    reports:
      metrics: metrics.txt

Only after adding it to the paths, too, I could download it via API:

jobx:
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - metrics.txt
    reports:
      metrics: metrics.txt
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Just to add - this is also mentioned in the docs although I only found it there after reading your post :grinning: