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REST API endpoints for rule suites

Use the REST API to manage rule suites for repositories.

List repository rule suites

Lists suites of rule evaluations at the repository level. For more information, see "Managing rulesets for a repository."

Fine-grained access tokens for "List repository rule suites"

This endpoint works with the following fine-grained token types:

The fine-grained token must have the following permission set:

  • "Administration" repository permissions (write)

Parameters for "List repository rule suites"

Headers
Name, Type, Description
accept string

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
owner string Required

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

repo string Required

The name of the repository without the .git extension. The name is not case sensitive.

Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
ref string

The name of the ref. Cannot contain wildcard characters. Optionally prefix with refs/heads/ to limit to branches or refs/tags/ to limit to tags. Omit the prefix to search across all refs. When specified, only rule evaluations triggered for this ref will be returned.

time_period string

The time period to filter by.

For example, day will filter for rule suites that occurred in the past 24 hours, and week will filter for insights that occurred in the past 7 days (168 hours).

Default: day

Can be one of: hour, day, week, month

actor_name string

The handle for the GitHub user account to filter on. When specified, only rule evaluations triggered by this actor will be returned.

rule_suite_result string

The rule results to filter on. When specified, only suites with this result will be returned.

Default: all

Can be one of: pass, fail, bypass, all

per_page integer

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

Default: 30

page integer

The page number of the results to fetch. For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

Default: 1

HTTP response status codes for "List repository rule suites"

Status codeDescription
200

OK

404

Resource not found

500

Internal Error

Code samples for "List repository rule suites"

If you access GitHub at GHE.com, replace api.github.com with your enterprise's dedicated subdomain at api.SUBDOMAIN.ghe.com.

Request example

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/rulesets/rule-suites
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/repos/OWNER/REPO/rulesets/rule-suites

Response

Status: 200
[ { "id": 21, "actor_id": 12, "actor_name": "octocat", "before_sha": "893f768e172fb1bc9c5d6f3dd48557e45f14e01d", "after_sha": "dedd88641a362b6b4ea872da4847d6131a164d01", "ref": "refs/heads/i-see-everything", "repository_id": 404, "repository_name": "octo-repo", "pushed_at": "2023-07-06T08:43:03Z", "result": "bypass" }, { "id": 25, "actor_id": 11, "actor_name": "not-octocat", "before_sha": "48994e4e01ccc943624c6231f172702b82b233cc", "after_sha": "ecfd5a1025fa271a33ca5608d089476a2df3c9a1", "ref": "refs/heads/i-am-everything", "repository_id": 404, "repository_name": "octo-repo", "pushed_at": "2023-07-07T08:43:03Z", "result": "pass", "evaluation_result": "fail" } ]

Get a repository rule suite

Gets information about a suite of rule evaluations from within a repository. For more information, see "Managing rulesets for a repository."

Fine-grained access tokens for "Get a repository rule suite"

This endpoint works with the following fine-grained token types:

The fine-grained token must have the following permission set:

  • "Administration" repository permissions (write)

Parameters for "Get a repository rule suite"

Headers
Name, Type, Description
accept string

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
owner string Required

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

repo string Required

The name of the repository without the .git extension. The name is not case sensitive.

rule_suite_id integer Required

The unique identifier of the rule suite result. To get this ID, you can use GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/rulesets/rule-suites for repositories and GET /orgs/{org}/rulesets/rule-suites for organizations.

HTTP response status codes for "Get a repository rule suite"

Status codeDescription
200

OK

404

Resource not found

500

Internal Error

Code samples for "Get a repository rule suite"

If you access GitHub at GHE.com, replace api.github.com with your enterprise's dedicated subdomain at api.SUBDOMAIN.ghe.com.

Request example

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/rulesets/rule-suites/{rule_suite_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/repos/OWNER/REPO/rulesets/rule-suites/RULE_SUITE_ID

Response

Status: 200
{ "id": 21, "actor_id": 12, "actor_name": "octocat", "before_sha": "893f768e172fb1bc9c5d6f3dd48557e45f14e01d", "after_sha": "dedd88641a362b6b4ea872da4847d6131a164d01", "ref": "refs/heads/i-see-everything", "repository_id": 404, "repository_name": "octo-repo", "pushed_at": "2023-07-06T08:43:03Z", "result": "bypass", "evaluation_result": "fail", "rule_evaluations": [ { "rule_source": { "type": "ruleset", "id": 2, "name": "Author email must be a GitHub email address" }, "enforcement": "active", "result": "pass", "rule_type": "commit_author_email_pattern" }, { "rule_source": { "type": "protected_branch" }, "enforcement": "active", "result": "fail", "rule_type": "pull_request", "details": "Changes must be made through a pull request." }, { "rule_source": { "type": "ruleset", "id": 3, "name": "Evaluate commit message pattern" }, "enforcement": "evaluate", "result": "fail", "rule_type": "commit_message_pattern" } ] }