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REST-API-Endpunkte für Benutzer

Verwende die REST-API, um öffentliche und private Informationen zu authentifizierten Benutzer*innen abzurufen.

Get the authenticated user

OAuth app tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the user scope in order for the response to include private profile information.

Differenzierte Zugriffstoken für "Get the authenticated user"

Dieser Endpunkt funktioniert mit den folgenden differenzierten Tokentypen.:

Das differenzierte Token erfordert keine Berechtigungen.

HTTP-Antwortstatuscodes für „Get the authenticated user“

StatuscodeBESCHREIBUNG
200

OK

304

Not modified

401

Requires authentication

403

Forbidden

Codebeispiele für „Get the authenticated user“

Beispiele für Anforderungen

get/user
curl -L \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \ https://api.github.com/user

Response with public and private profile information

Status: 200
{ "login": "octocat", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=", "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif", "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": false, "name": "monalisa octocat", "company": "GitHub", "blog": "https://github.com/blog", "location": "San Francisco", "email": "octocat@github.com", "hireable": false, "bio": "There once was...", "twitter_username": "monatheoctocat", "public_repos": 2, "public_gists": 1, "followers": 20, "following": 0, "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z", "updated_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z", "private_gists": 81, "total_private_repos": 100, "owned_private_repos": 100, "disk_usage": 10000, "collaborators": 8, "two_factor_authentication": true, "plan": { "name": "Medium", "space": 400, "private_repos": 20, "collaborators": 0 } }

Update the authenticated user

Note: If your email is set to private and you send an email parameter as part of this request to update your profile, your privacy settings are still enforced: the email address will not be displayed on your public profile or via the API.

Differenzierte Zugriffstoken für "Update the authenticated user"

Dieser Endpunkt funktioniert mit den folgenden differenzierten Tokentypen.:

Das differenzierte Token muss einen der folgenden Berechtigungssätze aufweisen.:

  • "Profile" user permissions (write)

Parameter für „Update the authenticated user“

Header
Name, type, BESCHREIBUNG
accept string

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

Textparameter
Name, type, BESCHREIBUNG
name string

The new name of the user.

email string

The publicly visible email address of the user.

blog string

The new blog URL of the user.

twitter_username string or null

The new Twitter username of the user.

company string

The new company of the user.

location string

The new location of the user.

hireable boolean

The new hiring availability of the user.

bio string

The new short biography of the user.

HTTP-Antwortstatuscodes für „Update the authenticated user“

StatuscodeBESCHREIBUNG
200

OK

304

Not modified

401

Requires authentication

403

Forbidden

404

Resource not found

422

Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

Codebeispiele für „Update the authenticated user“

Anforderungsbeispiel

patch/user
curl -L \ -X PATCH \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \ https://api.github.com/user \ -d '{"blog":"https://github.com/blog","name":"monalisa octocat"}'

Response

Status: 200
{ "login": "octocat", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=", "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif", "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": false, "name": "monalisa octocat", "company": "GitHub", "blog": "https://github.com/blog", "location": "San Francisco", "email": "octocat@github.com", "hireable": false, "bio": "There once was...", "twitter_username": "monatheoctocat", "public_repos": 2, "public_gists": 1, "followers": 20, "following": 0, "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z", "updated_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z", "private_gists": 81, "total_private_repos": 100, "owned_private_repos": 100, "disk_usage": 10000, "collaborators": 8, "two_factor_authentication": true, "plan": { "name": "Medium", "space": 400, "private_repos": 20, "collaborators": 0 } }

Get a user using their ID

Provides publicly available information about someone with a GitHub account. This method takes their durable user ID instead of their login, which can change over time.

The email key in the following response is the publicly visible email address from your GitHub profile page. When setting up your profile, you can select a primary email address to be “public” which provides an email entry for this endpoint. If you do not set a public email address for email, then it will have a value of null. You only see publicly visible email addresses when authenticated with GitHub. For more information, see Authentication.

The Emails API enables you to list all of your email addresses, and toggle a primary email to be visible publicly. For more information, see "Emails API".

Parameter für „Get a user using their ID“

Header
Name, type, BESCHREIBUNG
accept string

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

Pfadparameter
Name, type, BESCHREIBUNG
account_id integer Erforderlich

account_id parameter

HTTP-Antwortstatuscodes für „Get a user using their ID“

StatuscodeBESCHREIBUNG
200

OK

404

Resource not found

Codebeispiele für „Get a user using their ID“

Beispiele für Anforderungen

get/user/{account_id}
curl -L \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \ https://api.github.com/user/ACCOUNT_ID

Default response

Status: 200
{ "login": "octocat", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=", "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif", "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": false, "name": "monalisa octocat", "company": "GitHub", "blog": "https://github.com/blog", "location": "San Francisco", "email": "octocat@github.com", "hireable": false, "bio": "There once was...", "twitter_username": "monatheoctocat", "public_repos": 2, "public_gists": 1, "followers": 20, "following": 0, "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z", "updated_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z" }

List users

Lists all users, in the order that they signed up on GitHub. This list includes personal user accounts and organization accounts.

Note: Pagination is powered exclusively by the since parameter. Use the Link header to get the URL for the next page of users.

Differenzierte Zugriffstoken für "List users"

Dieser Endpunkt funktioniert mit den folgenden differenzierten Tokentypen.:

Das differenzierte Token erfordert keine Berechtigungen.

Dieser Endpunkt kann ohne Authentifizierung werden, wenn nur öffentliche Ressourcen angefordert werden.

Parameter für „List users“

Header
Name, type, BESCHREIBUNG
accept string

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

Abfrageparameter
Name, type, BESCHREIBUNG
since integer

A user ID. Only return users with an ID greater than this ID.

per_page integer

The number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

Standard: 30

HTTP-Antwortstatuscodes für „List users“

StatuscodeBESCHREIBUNG
200

OK

304

Not modified

Codebeispiele für „List users“

Anforderungsbeispiel

get/users
curl -L \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \ https://api.github.com/users

Response

Status: 200
[ { "login": "octocat", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=", "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif", "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": false } ]

Get a user

Provides publicly available information about someone with a GitHub account.

The email key in the following response is the publicly visible email address from your GitHub profile page. When setting up your profile, you can select a primary email address to be “public” which provides an email entry for this endpoint. If you do not set a public email address for email, then it will have a value of null. You only see publicly visible email addresses when authenticated with GitHub. For more information, see Authentication.

The Emails API enables you to list all of your email addresses, and toggle a primary email to be visible publicly. For more information, see "Emails API".

Parameter für „Get a user“

Header
Name, type, BESCHREIBUNG
accept string

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

Pfadparameter
Name, type, BESCHREIBUNG
username string Erforderlich

The handle for the GitHub user account.

HTTP-Antwortstatuscodes für „Get a user“

StatuscodeBESCHREIBUNG
200

OK

404

Resource not found

Codebeispiele für „Get a user“

Beispiele für Anforderungen

get/users/{username}
curl -L \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \ https://api.github.com/users/USERNAME

Default response

Status: 200
{ "login": "octocat", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=", "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif", "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": false, "name": "monalisa octocat", "company": "GitHub", "blog": "https://github.com/blog", "location": "San Francisco", "email": "octocat@github.com", "hireable": false, "bio": "There once was...", "twitter_username": "monatheoctocat", "public_repos": 2, "public_gists": 1, "followers": 20, "following": 0, "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z", "updated_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z" }

Get contextual information for a user

Provides hovercard information. You can find out more about someone in relation to their pull requests, issues, repositories, and organizations.

The subject_type and subject_id parameters provide context for the person's hovercard, which returns more information than without the parameters. For example, if you wanted to find out more about octocat who owns the Spoon-Knife repository, you would use a subject_type value of repository and a subject_id value of 1300192 (the ID of the Spoon-Knife repository).

OAuth app tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the repo scope to use this endpoint.

Differenzierte Zugriffstoken für "Get contextual information for a user"

Dieser Endpunkt funktioniert nicht mit GitHub-App-Benutzerzugriffstoken, GitHub-App-Installationszugriffstoken oder differenzierten persönlichen Zugriffstoken.

Parameter für „Get contextual information for a user“

Header
Name, type, BESCHREIBUNG
accept string

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

Pfadparameter
Name, type, BESCHREIBUNG
username string Erforderlich

The handle for the GitHub user account.

Abfrageparameter
Name, type, BESCHREIBUNG
subject_type string

Identifies which additional information you'd like to receive about the person's hovercard. Can be organization, repository, issue, pull_request. Required when using subject_id.

Kann eine der Folgenden sein: organization, repository, issue, pull_request

subject_id string

Uses the ID for the subject_type you specified. Required when using subject_type.

HTTP-Antwortstatuscodes für „Get contextual information for a user“

StatuscodeBESCHREIBUNG
200

OK

404

Resource not found

422

Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

Codebeispiele für „Get contextual information for a user“

Anforderungsbeispiel

get/users/{username}/hovercard
curl -L \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \ https://api.github.com/users/USERNAME/hovercard

Response

Status: 200
{ "contexts": [ { "message": "Owns this repository", "octicon": "repo" } ] }