GitHub is a cloud-based platform for software development and version control, built on Git. It enables developers to store, manage, and collaborate on code. In addition to Gits distributed version control, GitHub offers access control, bug tracking, feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for projects. Headquartered in California, it has operated as a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018.
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GitHub App API
The GitHub App API is the set of REST/GraphQL endpoints and webhooks that lets a GitHub App securely integrate with and automate work across GitHub. Apps authenticate with a shortlived JSON Web Token and exchange it for installation access tokens to act on specific repositories or organizations w...
GitHub Authorization API
The GitHub Authorization (OAuth Authorizations) API historically let you programmatically create, list, inspect, and revoke access tokens for a user or OAuth applicationsetting scopes, verifying token validity, rotating or deleting tokens, and generally managing what an app could do on a users be...
GitHub Code of Conduct API
GitHubs Code of Conduct API lets apps discover and retrieve the community codes of conduct that GitHub supports and see which one a repository has adopted. Through REST endpoints, clients can list available templates (like the Contributor Covenant), fetch a specific code by key, and read a reposi...
GitHub Emojis API
The GitHub Emojis API is a simple REST endpoint (GET /emojis or https://api.github.com/emojis) that returns a JSON dictionary mapping emoji shortcodes (like "smile" or "octocat") to the image URLs GitHub uses to render them. It covers both standard Unicode emoji and GitHub-specific custom ones, e...
GitHub Events API
The GitHub Events API provides a read-only feed of recent activity on GitHub, exposing structured event objects you can poll to see what happened across the platform or within a specific repository, organization, or user account. It covers many event typessuch as pushes, pull requests, issues, co...
GitHub Feeds API
GitHubs Feeds API lets you programmatically discover the Atom feed URLs for GitHub activity thats relevant to you, such as the global timeline, a specific users activity, the authenticated users public and private activity, organization activity, and security advisories. It doesnt return events d...
GitHub Gists API
The GitHub Gists API lets you programmatically manage gistslightweight code snippets and notesover HTTP. You can create gists (public or secret/unlisted), read individual gists, list public gists, your own, a users, and those youve starred, fetch raw file contents, view version history and commit...
GitHub Gitignore Templates API
The GitHub Gitignore Templates API is a REST interface that lets you discover and fetch canonical .gitignore templates maintained by GitHub, so you can programmatically create ignore files tailored to specific languages, frameworks, IDEs, or operating systems. It provides endpoints to list all av...
GitHub Installation API
The GitHub Installation API is part of the GitHub Apps platform and lets an app understand and manage where its installed and what it can access, and act on behalf of that installation. Using these endpoints, an app can list its installations, fetch details for a specific installation, enumerate ...
GitHub Issues API
The GitHub Issues API lets you programmatically manage issue tracking on GitHub, enabling you to list and filter issues across repositories, create and edit issues, change their state (open/closed), and manage assignees, labels, and milestones. It supports adding, updating, and deleting comments;...
GitHub Licenses API
The GitHub Licenses API lets you programmatically discover and retrieve open source license information across GitHub. It provides endpoints to list the common licenses GitHub supports, get detailed metadata and the canonical text for a specific license (by its SPDX identifier), and fetch the det...
GitHub Enterprise Management API
The GitHub Enterprise Management API lets administrators automate and integrate the operational and security management of their enterprise on GitHub. It covers tasks like provisioning and governing organizations, users, and teams; enforcing policies for repositories, security, and GitHub Actions...
GitHub Markdown API
The GitHub Markdown API is a REST service that converts Markdownespecially GitHub Flavored Markdowninto the same HTML GitHub renders in READMEs, issues, and pull requests, so external apps can display content consistently with GitHub. You POST Markdown to its endpoints (/markdown or /markdown/raw...
GitHub Meta API
Use the REST API to get meta information about GitHub, including the IP addresses of GitHub services.
GitHub Networks API
GitHubs Networks API lets you retrieve a stream of public activity that occurs across a repositorys network, meaning the original repo and all of its forks. Exposed via the Events API (for example, listing events for /networks/{owner}/{repo}/events), it returns the same event types you see in oth...
GitHub Notifications API
This GitHub REST API allows you to programmatically manage your GitHub notifications, which include updates on issues, pull requests, and commits. The API requires authentication via a personal access token (classic) and needs either the notifications or repo scope to function.
GitHub Octocat API
The GitHub Octocat API is a playful, non-functional endpoint in GitHubs REST API that returns an ASCII-art rendering of the Octocat mascot as plain text. Its primarily meant for fun and demospeople often use it to sanity-check connectivity, see how the API formats responses and headers, or showca...
GitHub Organization API
The GitHub Organization API lets you programmatically administer and integrate with organizations on GitHub, spanning both REST and GraphQL. It covers core governance tasks such as reading and updating org settings and policies, managing members and outside collaborators, sending invitations and ...
GitHub Projects API
The GitHub Projects API enables developers to programmatically create and manage GitHub Projects, which are flexible tools for planning and tracking work using customizable boards, tables, and roadmaps. Through these REST API endpoints, you can create projects at the repository, organization, or ...
GitHub Rate Limit API
GitHubs Rate Limit API lets you programmatically see how much API quota you have left and when it will reset, so you can avoid hitting API rate limit exceeded errors. By calling the /rate_limit endpoint (or by reading the X-RateLimit headers on any response), you get current limit, remaining, use...
GitHub Repos API
The GitHub Repos API is a set of REST endpoints that let you programmatically create, read, update, and delete repositories and their resources, giving you control over a repos lifecycle and configuration. You can list and search repositories for users or organizations; retrieve metadata (visibil...
GitHub SCIM API
GitHubs SCIM API implements the SCIM 2.0 standard to automate user lifecycle management from an identity provider (such as Entra ID/Azure AD, Okta, or OneLogin) to GitHub Enterprise Cloud. It lets you provision, update, suspend/reactivate, and deprovision users, keeping their GitHub access in syn...
GitHub Search API
The GitHub Search API lets you programmatically find and filter content across GitHubincluding repositories, code, issues and pull requests, commits, users, topics, and labelsusing a powerful query language with qualifiers (for example by language, stars, forks, org/user, path/filename, label, st...
GitHub Setup API
The GitHub Setup API is the administrative interface for GitHub Enterprise Server that lets you automate tasks normally done in the Management Console during first-time and ongoing configuration. It provides endpoints to upload and apply your license, set the hostname and TLS certificates, config...
GitHub Teams API
The GitHub Teams API lets you programmatically manage organization teams and the access they grant. With it, you can create, update, and delete teams; organize parent/child team hierarchies; add or remove members and maintainers; send and manage invitations; and list or audit team membership. It ...
GitHub Zen API
The GitHub Zen API is a playful REST endpoint that returns a random aphorism from the Zen of GitHub, such as Keep it logically awesome. Each request to GET https://api.github.com/zen responds with a single plain-text line, making it useful for quick connectivity checks, demoing HTTP calls, or ver...
GitHub User API
The GitHub Users API (part of the REST API) lets applications read and, for the authenticated account, manage user-related data on GitHub. It can fetch public profiles for any user or the authenticated users private profile details, list a users public repositories and organizations, and view act...
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