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Multi-Project Pipelines: Downloading Artifacts from Another Project

If you want to get artifacts from the pipeline of another project, you can use the needs keyword with the project keyword. This is how it is done:

In the first project, project 1, we will generate an artifact called artifact1.txt:

job_1:
  script:
    - echo "This is job 1"
    - echo "some data" > artifact1.txt
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - artifact1.txt

In the second project, project 2, we will get the artifact1.txt artifact from project 1:

job_2: