diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/LocationReaders.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/LocationReaders.ts
index 8ec575d6ec..9c29e45ca3 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/LocationReaders.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/LocationReaders.ts
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import { EntityPolicyProcessor } from './processors/EntityPolicyProcessor';
 import { FileReaderProcessor } from './processors/FileReaderProcessor';
 import { GithubReaderProcessor } from './processors/GithubReaderProcessor';
 import { GithubApiReaderProcessor } from './processors/GithubApiReaderProcessor';
+import { GitlabApiReaderProcessor } from './processors/GitlabApiReaderProcessor';
 import { GitlabReaderProcessor } from './processors/GitlabReaderProcessor';
 import { LocationRefProcessor } from './processors/LocationEntityProcessor';
 import * as result from './processors/results';
@@ -59,6 +60,7 @@ export class LocationReaders implements LocationReader {
       new FileReaderProcessor(),
       new GithubReaderProcessor(),
       new GithubApiReaderProcessor(),
+      new GitlabApiReaderProcessor(),
       new GitlabReaderProcessor(),
       new YamlProcessor(),
       new EntityPolicyProcessor(entityPolicy),
@@ -102,7 +104,6 @@ export class LocationReaders implements LocationReader {
           });
         }
       }
-
       if (newItems.length === 0) {
         return output;
       }
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/processors/GitlabApiReaderProcessor.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/processors/GitlabApiReaderProcessor.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..00abaab430
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/processors/GitlabApiReaderProcessor.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2020 Spotify AB
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { Entity, LocationSpec } from '@backstage/catalog-model';
+import fetch, { RequestInit, HeadersInit } from 'node-fetch';
+import lodash from 'lodash';
+import yaml from 'yaml';
+import * as result from './results';
+import { LocationProcessor, LocationProcessorEmit } from './types';
+
+export class GitlabApiReaderProcessor implements LocationProcessor {
+  private privateToken: string = process.env.GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN || '';
+
+  getRequestOptions(): RequestInit {
+    const headers: HeadersInit = { 'PRIVATE-TOKEN': '' };
+    if (this.privateToken !== '') {
+      headers['PRIVATE-TOKEN'] = this.privateToken;
+    }
+
+    const requestOptions: RequestInit = {
+      headers,
+    };
+
+    return requestOptions;
+  }
+
+  async readLocation(
+    location: LocationSpec,
+    optional: boolean,
+    emit: LocationProcessorEmit,
+  ): Promise<boolean> {
+    if (location.type !== 'gitlab/api') {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    try {
+      // const url = this.buildRawUrl(location.target);
+      const url = new URL(location.target);
+      const response = await fetch(url.toString(), this.getRequestOptions());
+      if (response.ok) {
+        const data = await response.buffer();
+        emit(result.data(location, data));
+      } else {
+        const message = `${location.target} could not be read as ${url}, ${response.status} ${response.statusText}`;
+        if (response.status === 404) {
+          if (!optional) {
+            emit(result.notFoundError(location, message));
+          }
+        } else {
+          emit(result.generalError(location, message));
+        }
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      const message = `Unable to read ${location.type} ${location.target}, ${e}`;
+      emit(result.generalError(location, message));
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  // We need our own parseData because the gitlab api url has `/raw?ref=branch`
+  // on the end which doesn't match the regex in YamlProcessor (.ya?ml$)
+  async parseData(
+    data: Buffer,
+    location: LocationSpec,
+    emit: LocationProcessorEmit,
+  ): Promise<boolean> {
+    if (!location.target.match(/\.ya?ml/)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    let documents: yaml.Document.Parsed[];
+    try {
+      documents = yaml.parseAllDocuments(data.toString('utf8')).filter(d => d);
+    } catch (e) {
+      emit(result.generalError(location, `Failed to parse YAML, ${e}`));
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    for (const document of documents) {
+      if (document.errors?.length) {
+        const message = `YAML error, ${document.errors[0]}`;
+        emit(result.generalError(location, message));
+      } else {
+        const json = document.toJSON();
+        if (lodash.isPlainObject(json)) {
+          emit(result.entity(location, json as Entity));
+        } else {
+          const message = `Expected object at root, got ${typeof json}`;
+          emit(result.generalError(location, message));
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    return true;
+  }
+}