Gitea

Gitea API Skill

Authentication

The base URL and API token are already available as environment variables — no need to fetch them from anywhere:

GITEA_BASE_URL   e.g. https://gitea.hummel.casa
GITEA_API_KEY    the API token

All requests use:

Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json   (for POST/PATCH/PUT)

Base URL for the API: $GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1

Known repos

For other repos, ask the user or infer from context.

Pull Requests

List open PRs

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls?state=open&limit=50" | jq .

Get a specific PR

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{index}" | jq .

PRs are addressed by their number (index), not an internal ID.

Create a PR

curl -s -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "title": "PR title",
    "body": "Description here",
    "head": "feature-branch",
    "base": "main"
  }' \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls"

Update PR title or description

curl -s -X PATCH \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"title": "New title", "body": "New description"}' \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{index}"

Both fields are optional — only include the ones you want to change.

Merge a PR

curl -s -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"Do": "merge", "merge_message_field": "Merge PR #N"}' \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{index}/merge"

Do can be "merge", "rebase", or "squash". Returns 204 on success.

Add a comment to a PR

curl -s -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"body": "Comment text here"}' \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{index}/comments"

PR comments use the /issues/{index}/comments endpoint (PRs and issues share the same comment system in Gitea).

List PR comments

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{index}/comments" | jq .

Branches

List branches

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/branches?limit=50" | \
  jq '[.[] | {name: .name, sha: .commit.id[:8], date: .commit.timestamp, author: .commit.author.name}] | sort_by(.date) | reverse'

Include the commit author and sort most-recent-first — "what branches exist" almost always means "which ones are stale," and both details matter for that judgment.

Get a specific branch

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/branches/{branch}" | jq .

Delete a branch

curl -s -X DELETE \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/branches/{branch}"

Returns 204 on success. Confirm with the user before deleting.

Commits

List commits on a branch

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits?sha={branch}&limit=20" | \
  jq '[.[] | {sha: .sha[:8], message: .commit.message | split("\n")[0], author: .commit.author.name, date: .commit.author.date}]'

Get a single commit

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/git/commits/{sha}" | jq .

Wiki

Wiki pages are addressed by a slug (sub_url), not the human-readable title — and the two are often different. Always get the slug from a title/sub_url pair in a list or create response before doing a GET/PATCH/DELETE; never guess a slug from the title yourself (e.g. spaces become -, but Gitea can add unexpected suffixes like a trailing .- in some cases — don't try to reproduce the encoding by hand).

Page content is base64-encoded on the wire (content_base64) in both directions.

List wiki pages

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/wiki/pages" | jq '[.[] | {title, sub_url}]'

Get a wiki page

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/wiki/page/{slug}" | jq '. + {content: (.content_base64 | @base64d)}'

Use the sub_url from the list/create response as {slug}, URL-encoded if it contains special characters.

Create a wiki page

CONTENT_B64=$(printf '%s' "$MARKDOWN_CONTENT" | base64 -w0)
curl -s -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "{\"title\": \"Page Title\", \"content_base64\": \"$CONTENT_B64\", \"message\": \"commit message\"}" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/wiki/new"

Returns 201 with the page's real sub_url — use that for any follow-up edit/delete, don't assume it matches title.

Edit a wiki page

CONTENT_B64=$(printf '%s' "$MARKDOWN_CONTENT" | base64 -w0)
curl -s -X PATCH \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "{\"title\": \"Page Title\", \"content_base64\": \"$CONTENT_B64\", \"message\": \"commit message\"}" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/wiki/page/{slug}"

Always include title on PATCH, even if unchanged. The API docs claim omitting it "keeps it unchanged," but in practice omitting it renames the page to a generic placeholder (like "unnamed") and changes its slug — silently orphaning the old URL. Fetch the current title first (via GET) if you don't already know it, and pass it back explicitly.

Get wiki page revision history

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/wiki/revisions/{slug}" | jq '.commits[] | {sha: .sha[:8], message: .commit.message, author: .author.name, date: .author.date}'

Delete a wiki page

curl -s -X DELETE \
  -H "Authorization: token $GITEA_API_KEY" -H "Accept: application/json" \
  "$GITEA_BASE_URL/api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/wiki/page/{slug}"

Returns 204 on success. Confirm with the user before deleting.

Tips

• PR numbers vs internal IDs: Always use the human-visible PR number (e.g., 50) in URLs, not the internal id field from API responses.
• Pagination: List endpoints default to 20 results. Add ?limit=50 for more, or follow the Link header for full pagination.
• PR state: state=open, state=closed, or state=all.
• Terraform PRs go through Atlantis: Merging a terraform PR triggers terraform plan/apply automatically — confirm with the user before merging.
• Uninitialized wikis return 404, not an empty list: GET /wiki/pages 404s until the wiki has had at least one page ever created (even if all pages are later deleted, it then correctly returns []). A 404 here usually just means "no wiki content yet," not a broken request — check has_wiki on the repo object if unsure.