GitHub

About GitHub

The GitHub REST API provides programmatic access to GitHub's platform, allowing developers to create integrations, retrieve data, and automate workflows. It covers authentication (including GitHub Apps, OAuth, and fine-grained personal access tokens), rate limits, pagination, and versioning, with the documented API version being 2026-03-10.

The API exposes endpoints across a wide range of GitHub functionality, including repositories, branches, commits, pull requests, issues, releases, packages, gists, organizations, teams, and users. It also covers GitHub-specific features such as Actions (workflows, runners, artifacts, secrets), Codespaces, Copilot management, Dependabot, code scanning, secret scanning, security advisories, and projects.

The documentation is aimed at developers building CI systems, integrations, or automated tooling on top of GitHub, and includes guides for scripting with JavaScript and Ruby, working with the Git database, delivering deployments, and rendering data as graphs.

Key features

• REST API for repositories, issues, pull requests, and organizations
• GitHub Actions endpoints for workflows, runners, secrets, and artifacts
• Webhooks and OAuth authentication including GitHub Apps and fine-grained PATs
• Endpoints for Codespaces, Copilot management, and Dependabot alerts
• API versioning with explicit version headers per request
• Search, gists, and Git database endpoints for blobs, commits, and trees

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