GitHub v3 REST API

Get a branch

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Get the weekly commit activity Returns a weekly aggregate of the number of additions and deletions pushed to a repository.

Get repository permissions for a user Checks the repository permission of a collaborator. The possible repository permissions are `admin`, `write`, `read`, and `none`.

Get the combined status for a specific reference Users with pull access in a repository can access a combined view of commit statuses for a given ref. The ref can be a SHA, a branch name, or a tag name. Additionally, a combined `state` is returned. The `state` is one of: * **failure** if any of the contexts report as `error` or `failure` * **pending** if there are no statuses or a context is `pending` * **success** if the latest status for all contexts is `success`

Get a commit Returns the contents of a single commit reference. You must have `read` access for the repository to use this endpoint. **Note:** If there are more than 300 files in the commit diff, the response will include pagination link headers for the remaining files, up to a limit of 3000 files. Each page contains the static commit information, and the only changes are to the file listing. You can pass the appropriate [media type](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/overview/media-types/#commits-commit-comparison-and-pull-requests) to fetch `diff` and `patch` formats. Diffs with binary data will have no `patch` property. To return only the SHA-1 hash of the commit reference, you can provide the `sha` custom [media type](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/overview/media-types/#commits-commit-comparison-and-pull-requests) in the `Accept` header. You can use this endpoint to check if a remote reference's SHA-1 hash is the same as your local reference's SHA-1 hash by providing the local SHA-1 reference as the ETag. **Signature verification object** The response will include a `verification` object that describes the result of verifying the commit's signature. The following fields are included in the `verification` object: | Name | Type | Description | | ---- | ---- | ----------- | | `verified` | `boolean` | Indicates whether GitHub considers the signature in this commit to be verified. | | `reason` | `string` | The reason for verified value. Possible values and their meanings are enumerated in table below. | | `signature` | `string` | The signature that was extracted from the commit. | | `payload` | `string` | The value that was signed. | These are the possible values for `reason` in the `verification` object: | Value | Description | | ----- | ----------- | | `expired_key` | The key that made the signature is expired. | | `not_signing_key` | The "signing" flag is not among the usage flags in the GPG key that made the signature. | | `gpgverify_error` | There was an error communicating with the signature verification service. | | `gpgverify_unavailable` | The signature verification service is currently unavailable. | | `unsigned` | The object does not include a signature. | | `unknown_signature_type` | A non-PGP signature was found in the commit. | | `no_user` | No user was associated with the `committer` email address in the commit. | | `unverified_email` | The `committer` email address in the commit was associated with a user, but the email address is not verified on her/his account. | | `bad_email` | The `committer` email address in the commit is not included in the identities of the PGP key that made the signature. | | `unknown_key` | The key that made the signature has not been registered with any user's account. | | `malformed_signature` | There was an error parsing the signature. | | `invalid` | The signature could not be cryptographically verified using the key whose key-id was found in the signature. | | `valid` | None of the above errors applied, so the signature is considered to be verified. |

Get the last year of commit activity Returns the last year of commit activity grouped by week. The `days` array is a group of commits per day, starting on `Sunday`.

Get a commit comment

Get commit signature protection Protected branches are available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see [GitHub's products](https://docs.github.com/github/getting-started-with-github/githubs-products) in the GitHub Help documentation. When authenticated with admin or owner permissions to the repository, you can use this endpoint to check whether a branch requires signed commits. An enabled status of `true` indicates you must sign commits on this branch. For more information, see [Signing commits with GPG](https://docs.github.com/articles/signing-commits-with-gpg) in GitHub Help. **Note**: You must enable branch protection to require signed commits.

Get repository content Gets the contents of a file or directory in a repository. Specify the file path or directory in `:path`. If you omit `:path`, you will receive the contents of the repository's root directory. See the description below regarding what the API response includes for directories. Files and symlinks support [a custom media type](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/reference/repos#custom-media-types) for retrieving the raw content or rendered HTML (when supported). All content types support [a custom media type](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/reference/repos#custom-media-types) to ensure the content is returned in a consistent object format. **Note**: * To get a repository's contents recursively, you can [recursively get the tree](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/reference/git#trees). * This API has an upper limit of 1,000 files for a directory. If you need to retrieve more files, use the [Git Trees API](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/reference/git#get-a-tree). * This API supports files up to 1 megabyte in size. #### If the content is a directory The response will be an array of objects, one object for each item in the directory. When listing the contents of a directory, submodules have their "type" specified as "file". Logically, the value _should_ be "submodule". This behavior exists in API v3 [for backwards compatibility purposes](https://git.io/v1YCW). In the next major version of the API, the type will be returned as "submodule". #### If the content is a symlink If the requested `:path` points to a symlink, and the symlink's target is a normal file in the repository, then the API responds with the content of the file (in the format shown in the example. Otherwise, the API responds with an object describing the symlink itself. #### If the content is a submodule The `submodule_git_url` identifies the location of the submodule repository, and the `sha` identifies a specific commit within the submodule repository. Git uses the given URL when cloning the submodule repository, and checks out the submodule at that specific commit. If the submodule repository is not hosted on github.com, the Git URLs (`git_url` and `_links["git"]`) and the github.com URLs (`html_url` and `_links["html"]`) will have null values.

Get all contributor commit activity Returns the `total` number of commits authored by the contributor. In addition, the response includes a Weekly Hash (`weeks` array) with the following information: * `w` - Start of the week, given as a [Unix timestamp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time). * `a` - Number of additions * `d` - Number of deletions * `c` - Number of commits

Get a deploy key

Get a deployment

Get a deployment status Users with pull access can view a deployment status for a deployment:

Get latest Pages build

Get the latest release View the latest published full release for the repository. The latest release is the most recent non-prerelease, non-draft release, sorted by the `created_at` attribute. The `created_at` attribute is the date of the commit used for the release, and not the date when the release was drafted or published.

Get a GitHub Enterprise Server Pages site

Get GitHub Enterprise Server Pages build

Get the weekly commit count Returns the total commit counts for the `owner` and total commit counts in `all`. `all` is everyone combined, including the `owner` in the last 52 weeks. If you'd like to get the commit counts for non-owners, you can subtract `owner` from `all`. The array order is oldest week (index 0) to most recent week.

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Get the hourly commit count for each day Each array contains the day number, hour number, and number of commits: * `0-6`: Sunday - Saturday * `0-23`: Hour of day * Number of commits For example, `[2, 14, 25]` indicates that there were 25 total commits, during the 2:00pm hour on Tuesdays. All times are based on the time zone of individual commits.

Get a repository README Gets the preferred README for a repository. READMEs support [custom media types](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/reference/repos#custom-media-types) for retrieving the raw content or rendered HTML.

Get a repository README for a directory Gets the README from a repository directory. READMEs support [custom media types](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/reference/repos#custom-media-types) for retrieving the raw content or rendered HTML.

Get a release **Note:** This returns an `upload_url` key corresponding to the endpoint for uploading release assets. This key is a [hypermedia resource](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/overview/resources-in-the-rest-api#hypermedia).

Get a release asset To download the asset's binary content, set the `Accept` header of the request to [`application/octet-stream`](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/overview/media-types). The API will either redirect the client to the location, or stream it directly if possible. API clients should handle both a `200` or `302` response.

Get a release by tag name Get a published release with the specified tag.

Get status checks protection Protected branches are available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see [GitHub's products](https://docs.github.com/github/getting-started-with-github/githubs-products) in the GitHub Help documentation.

Get teams with access to the protected branch Protected branches are available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see [GitHub's products](https://docs.github.com/github/getting-started-with-github/githubs-products) in the GitHub Help documentation. Lists the teams who have push access to this branch. The list includes child teams.

Get users with access to the protected branch Protected branches are available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see [GitHub's products](https://docs.github.com/github/getting-started-with-github/githubs-products) in the GitHub Help documentation. Lists the people who have push access to this branch.

Get a repository webhook Returns a webhook configured in a repository. To get only the webhook `config` properties, see "[Get a webhook configuration for a repository](/rest/reference/repos#get-a-webhook-configuration-for-a-repository)."

Get a webhook configuration for a repository Returns the webhook configuration for a repository. To get more information about the webhook, including the `active` state and `events`, use "[Get a repository webhook](/rest/reference/orgs#get-a-repository-webhook)." Access tokens must have the `read:repo_hook` or `repo` scope, and GitHub Apps must have the `repository_hooks:read` permission.

List branches

List branches for HEAD commit Protected branches are available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see [GitHub's products](https://docs.github.com/github/getting-started-with-github/githubs-products) in the GitHub Help documentation. Returns all branches where the given commit SHA is the HEAD, or latest commit for the branch.

List repository collaborators For organization-owned repositories, the list of collaborators includes outside collaborators, organization members that are direct collaborators, organization members with access through team memberships, organization members with access through default organization permissions, and organization owners. Organization members with write, maintain, or admin privileges on the organization-owned repository can use this endpoint. Team members will include the members of child teams. You must authenticate using an access token with the `read:org` and `repo` scopes with push access to use this endpoint. GitHub Apps must have the `members` organization permission and `metadata` repository permission to use this endpoint.

List commit comments Use the `:commit_sha` to specify the commit that will have its comments listed.

List commit comments for a repository Commit Comments use [these custom media types](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/reference/repos#custom-media-types). You can read more about the use of media types in the API [here](https://docs.github.com/[email protected]/rest/overview/media-types/). Comments are ordered by ascending ID.

List commit statuses for a reference Users with pull access in a repository can view commit statuses for a given ref. The ref can be a SHA, a branch name, or a tag name. Statuses are returned in reverse chronological order. The first status in the list will be the latest one. This resource is also available via a legacy route: `GET /repos/:owner/:repo/statuses/:ref`.

List commits **Signature verification object** The response will include a `verification` object that describes the result of verifying the commit's signature. The following fields are included in the `verification` object: | Name | Type | Description | | ---- | ---- | ----------- | | `verified` | `boolean` | Indicates whether GitHub considers the signature in this commit to be verified. | | `reason` | `string` | The reason for verified value. Possible values and their meanings are enumerated in table below. | | `signature` | `string` | The signature that was extracted from the commit. | | `payload` | `string` | The value that was signed. | These are the possible values for `reason` in the `verification` object: | Value | Description | | ----- | ----------- | | `expired_key` | The key that made the signature is expired. | | `not_signing_key` | The "signing" flag is not among the usage flags in the GPG key that made the signature. | | `gpgverify_error` | There was an error communicating with the signature verification service. | | `gpgverify_unavailable` | The signature verification service is currently unavailable. | | `unsigned` | The object does not include a signature. | | `unknown_signature_type` | A non-PGP signature was found in the commit. | | `no_user` | No user was associated with the `committer` email address in the commit. | | `unverified_email` | The `committer` email address in the commit was associated with a user, but the email address is not verified on her/his account. | | `bad_email` | The `committer` email address in the commit is not included in the identities of the PGP key that made the signature. | | `unknown_key` | The key that made the signature has not been registered with any user's account. | | `malformed_signature` | There was an error parsing the signature. | | `invalid` | The signature could not be cryptographically verified using the key whose key-id was found in the signature. | | `valid` | None of the above errors applied, so the signature is considered to be verified. |

List repository contributors Lists contributors to the specified repository and sorts them by the number of commits per contributor in descending order. This endpoint may return information that is a few hours old because the GitHub REST API v3 caches contributor data to improve performance. GitHub identifies contributors by author email address. This endpoint groups contribution counts by GitHub user, which includes all associated email addresses. To improve performance, only the first 500 author email addresses in the repository link to GitHub users. The rest will appear as anonymous contributors without associated GitHub user information.

List deploy keys

List deployment statuses Users with pull access can view deployment statuses for a deployment:

List deployments Simple filtering of deployments is available via query parameters:

List repositories for the authenticated user Lists repositories that the authenticated user has explicit permission (`:read`, `:write`, or `:admin`) to access. The authenticated user has explicit permission to access repositories they own, repositories where they are a collaborator, and repositories that they can access through an organization membership.

List organization repositories Lists repositories for the specified organization.

List repositories for a user Lists public repositories for the specified user. Note: For GitHub AE, this endpoint will list internal repositories for the specified user.

List forks

List repository invitations When authenticating as a user with admin rights to a repository, this endpoint will list all currently open repository invitations.

List repository invitations for the authenticated user When authenticating as a user, this endpoint will list all currently open repository invitations for that user.

List repository languages Lists languages for the specified repository. The value shown for each language is the number of bytes of code written in that language.

List GitHub Enterprise Server Pages builds