Example:

First create AQL Script file (example.aql) that contains:

items.find( 
{
        "repo": {"$eq": "test-docker-remote-cache"},
        "$and": [
            {"type":"file"},
            {
                "$and": [
                    {"path": {"$match": "*nginx*"}}
                ]
            }
        ]
    })
.include("name","path","size")

Then used the command below to make the call to retrieve the information created from the "aql" script:

curl -X POST -uadmin:<password> 'https://<ARTIFACTORY_URL>/artifactory/api/search/aql' -T example.aql

The results to running the above command:

{
"results" : [ {

  "path" : "library/nginx/1.24.0-alpine",
  "name" : "list.manifest.json",
  "size" : 1645
},{

"path" : "library/nginx/sha256__0bb91b50c42bc6677acff40ea0f050b655c5c2cc1311e783097a04061191340b",
"name" : "manifest.json",

  "size" : 1571
},{

  "path" : "library/nginx/sha256__7e4f9e3295d61e2d26b2b568c2e5d9707a50bbd69afaabdfea942bdd216183a8",
"name" : "sha256__20779f060cd3ec277650210aa15654e9ad332ba27e4933f738febc7892f21610",

  "size" : 1788531  ##layer size
},{

"path" : "library/nginx/sha256__0bb91b50c42bc6677acff40ea0f050b655c5c2cc1311e783097a04061191340b",
"name" : "sha256__ad570474ca7c3653588972408b7f01499a4a6cd2d8bc9fb9e4f4ba332a61d11d",

  "size" : 25695730
},{

"path" : "library/nginx/sha256__7e4f9e3295d61e2d26b2b568c2e5d9707a50bbd69afaabdfea942bdd216183a8",
"name" : "sha256__c41833b44d910632b415cd89a9cdaa4d62c9725dc56c99a7ddadafd6719960f9",

  "size" : 3261854
},{

"path" : "library/nginx/sha256__0bb91b50c42bc6677acff40ea0f050b655c5c2cc1311e783097a04061191340b",
"name" : "sha256__d981f2c20c93e1c57a46cd87bc5b9a554be5323072a0d0ab4b354aabd237bbcf",

  "size" : 30052747
},{

"path" : "library/nginx/sha256__7e4f9e3295d61e2d26b2b568c2e5d9707a50bbd69afaabdfea942bdd216183a8",
"name" : "sha256__e5382a11adf2600437da72df68012b6432b1eb0d03f7a107accccd3dab938912",

  "size" : 11139336 
} ],

"range" : {
  "start_pos" : 0,
  "end_pos" : 7,
  "total" : 7 
}

This then gives the size of each layer in the docker repository.

In addition this documentation provided can help for collecting all images in a repo as well using AQL.


Lastly, we can run this API to gather the Artifact Count/Size for the folders in the repo of our choosing. Same thing we would do in UI but more in an efficient way.

Example:

This is the command to run to gather the Artifact Count/Size for 'test-docker-remote-cache':

curl -XPOST -uadmin:<password> localhost:8081/artifactory/api/artifactgeneral/artifactsCount 
-H "Content-type: Application/json" --data '{"name":"library","repositoryPath":"test-docker-remote-cache/"}'

Output:

{
  "artifactsCount" : 22,
  "artifactSize" : "68.62 MB"
}

From this we can achieve the size of the Image with all the tags, and can sum up all the tags resulted from the query as well.