How to get the public snippets of a project without authentication? - gitlab-api

I can browse the public snippets of a project without authenticating, for example: https://gitlab.com/Boiethios/someproject/snippets.
I thus expect to access this information through a public API. However, the V4 API does not allow to do so: GET https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/6165269/snippets returns a 401.
How can I do that?

The newest gitlab API uses GraphQL.
To get the snippets of a project, the following request can do the job:
query {
project(fullPath: "username_or_group/projectname") {
snippets {
nodes {
fileName,
title,
blob {
rawPath
}
# You can query some other fields you want
}
}
}
}
The request can be tested here.
The request must be posted as a body to the url: https://gitlab.com/api/graphql.

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