Gitea Has a Free API — Lightweight Self-Hosted Git

Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service. It is like GitHub but runs on minimal resources — even a Raspberry Pi.

What Is Gitea?

Gitea provides Git hosting, code review, CI/CD, and project management in a single Go binary.

Features:

• Git repository hosting
• Pull requests and code review
• Issues and project boards
• CI/CD (Gitea Actions, GitHub Actions compatible)
• Package registry
• Single binary, low resources

Quick Start

docker run -p 3000:3000 -p 22:22 gitea/gitea:latest

REST API

# List repositories
curl https://gitea.example.com/api/v1/repos/search \
  -H "Authorization: token YOUR_TOKEN"

# Create repository
curl -X POST https://gitea.example.com/api/v1/user/repos \
  -H "Authorization: token YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -d '{"name":"new-repo","private":false,"description":"My project"}'

# Create issue
curl -X POST https://gitea.example.com/api/v1/repos/OWNER/REPO/issues \
  -H "Authorization: token YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -d '{"title":"Bug report","body":"Steps to reproduce..."}'

# List pull requests
curl https://gitea.example.com/api/v1/repos/OWNER/REPO/pulls \
  -H "Authorization: token YOUR_TOKEN"

Use Cases

1. Self-hosted GitHub — your own code platform
2. Air-gapped — offline development
3. CI/CD — GitHub Actions compatible
4. Education — free Git hosting for students
5. Homelab — runs on Raspberry Pi

Gitea vs Alternatives

Feature	Gitea	GitLab	Gogs
Memory	256MB	4GB+	256MB
CI/CD	Yes	Yes	No
Actions compat	Yes	No	No
Package registry	Yes	Yes	No
Written in	Go	Ruby	Go

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