Including Dependencies in Your Gradle Build Script's Classpath

In a recent project, I wanted to use SnakeYAML in my Gradle build script. This is pretty easy to do; all you have to do is add the following to your script:

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buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        // ...etc
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath group: 'org.yaml', name: 'snakeyaml', version: '1.5'
        // ..etc
    }
}

This is the same as the repositories {} and dependencies {} sections of the build script. After doing this, feel free to use your libraries anywhere in your build script. Don’t forget to import the classes you use!