def fetch_items(self, path, payload):
        """Return the items from GitLab API using links pagination"""

        page = 0  # current page
        last_page = None  # last page
        url_next = urijoin(self.base_url, GitLabClient.PROJECTS, self.owner + '%2F' + self.repository, path)

        logger.debug("Get GitLab paginated items from " + url_next)

        response = self.fetch(url_next, payload=payload)

        items = response.text
        page += 1

        if 'last' in response.links:
            last_url = response.links['last']['url']
            last_page = last_url.split('&page=')[1].split('&')[0]
            last_page = int(last_page)
            logger.debug("Page: %i/%i" % (page, last_page))

        while items:
            yield items

            items = None

            if 'next' in response.links:
                url_next = response.links['next']['url']  # Loving requests :)
                response = self.fetch(url_next, payload=payload)
                page += 1

                items = response.text
                logger.debug("Page: %i/%i" % (page, last_page))
Return the items from GitLab API using links pagination