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Timeline events

Use the REST API to receive events triggered by timeline activity in issues and pull requests.

About timeline events

You can use the REST API to view different types of events triggered by timeline activity in issues and pull requests. For more information about the specific events that you can receive, see "Issue event types." To view GitHub activity outside of issues and pull requests, see "GitHub Events Types."

You can use timeline events to display information about issues and pull requests or determine who should be notified of issue comments.

Every pull request is an issue, but not every issue is a pull request. For this reason, "shared" actions for both features, like managing assignees, labels, and milestones, are provided within the Issues endpoints.

List timeline events for an issue

Works with GitHub Apps

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

Setting to application/vnd.github+json is recommended.

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
ownerstringRequired

The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.

repostringRequired

The name of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.

issue_numberintegerRequired

The number that identifies the issue.

Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
per_pageinteger

The number of results per page (max 100).

Default: 30

pageinteger

Page number of the results to fetch.

Default: 1

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

404

Resource not found

410

Gone

Code samples

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/timeline
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/repos/OWNER/REPO/issues/ISSUE_NUMBER/timeline

Response

Status: 200
[ { "id": 6430295168, "node_id": "LOE_lADODwFebM5HwC0kzwAAAAF_RoSA", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/roadmap/issues/events/6430295168", "actor": { "login": "github", "id": 9919, "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjk5MTk=", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9919?v=4", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/github", "html_url": "https://github.com/github", "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github/followers", "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github/following{/other_user}", "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github/gists{/gist_id}", "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github/starred{/owner}{/repo}", "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github/subscriptions", "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github/orgs", "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github/repos", "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github/events{/privacy}", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github/received_events", "type": "Organization", "site_admin": false }, "event": "locked", "commit_id": null, "commit_url": null, "created_at": "2022-04-13T20:49:13Z", "lock_reason": null, "performed_via_github_app": null }, { "id": 6430296748, "node_id": "LE_lADODwFebM5HwC0kzwAAAAF_Roqs", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/roadmap/issues/events/6430296748", "actor": { "login": "github-product-roadmap", "id": 67656570, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjY3NjU2NTcw", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/67656570?v=4", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap", "html_url": "https://github.com/github-product-roadmap", "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/followers", "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/following{/other_user}", "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/gists{/gist_id}", "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/starred{/owner}{/repo}", "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/subscriptions", "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/orgs", "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/repos", "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/events{/privacy}", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/received_events", "type": "User", "site_admin": false }, "event": "labeled", "commit_id": null, "commit_url": null, "created_at": "2022-04-13T20:49:34Z", "label": { "name": "beta", "color": "99dd88" }, "performed_via_github_app": null }, { "id": 6635165802, "node_id": "RTE_lADODwFebM5HwC0kzwAAAAGLfJhq", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/roadmap/issues/events/6635165802", "actor": { "login": "github-product-roadmap", "id": 67656570, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjY3NjU2NTcw", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/67656570?v=4", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap", "html_url": "https://github.com/github-product-roadmap", "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/followers", "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/following{/other_user}", "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/gists{/gist_id}", "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/starred{/owner}{/repo}", "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/subscriptions", "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/orgs", "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/repos", "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/events{/privacy}", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/github-product-roadmap/received_events", "type": "User", "site_admin": false }, "event": "renamed", "commit_id": null, "commit_url": null, "created_at": "2022-05-18T19:29:01Z", "rename": { "from": "Secret scanning: dry-runs for enterprise-level custom patterns (cloud)", "to": "Secret scanning: dry-runs for enterprise-level custom patterns" }, "performed_via_github_app": null }, { "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/roadmap/issues/comments/1130876857", "html_url": "https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/493#issuecomment-1130876857", "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/roadmap/issues/493", "id": 1130876857, "node_id": "IC_kwDODwFebM5DZ8-5", "user": { "login": "octocat", "id": 94867353, "node_id": "U_kgDOBaePmQ", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/94867353?v=4", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat", "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers", "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}", "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}", "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}", "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions", "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs", "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos", "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events", "type": "User", "site_admin": true }, "created_at": "2022-05-19T00:52:15Z", "updated_at": "2022-05-19T00:52:15Z", "author_association": "COLLABORATOR", "body": "🚢 Shipped to the cloud: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-05-12-secret-scanning-dry-runs-for-enterprise-level-custom-patterns/", "reactions": { "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/roadmap/issues/comments/1130876857/reactions", "total_count": 0, "+1": 0, "-1": 0, "laugh": 0, "hooray": 0, "confused": 0, "heart": 0, "rocket": 0, "eyes": 0 }, "performed_via_github_app": null, "event": "commented", "actor": { "login": "octocat", "id": 94867353, "node_id": "U_kgDOBaePmQ", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/94867353?v=4", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat", "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers", "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}", "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}", "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}", "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions", "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs", "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos", "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events", "type": "User", "site_admin": true } } ]