Issues

Custom media types for issues
List issues assigned to the authenticated user
List organization issues assigned to the authenticated user
List repository issues
Create an issue
Get an issue
Update an issue
Lock an issue
Unlock an issue
List user account issues assigned to the authenticated user
Assignees
List assignees
Check if a user can be assigned
Add assignees to an issue
Remove assignees from an issue
Comments
List issue comments for a repository
Get an issue comment
Update an issue comment
Delete an issue comment
List issue comments
Create an issue comment
Events
List issue events for a repository
Get an issue event
List issue events
Labels
List labels for an issue
Add labels to an issue
Set labels for an issue
Remove all labels from an issue
Remove a label from an issue
List labels for a repository
Create a label
Get a label
Update a label
Delete a label
List labels for issues in a milestone
Milestones
List milestones
Create a milestone
Get a milestone
Update a milestone
Delete a milestone
Timeline
List timeline events for an issue

Custom media types for issues

These are the supported media types for issues.

application/vnd.github.VERSION.raw+json
application/vnd.github.VERSION.text+json
application/vnd.github.VERSION.html+json
application/vnd.github.VERSION.full+json

For more information about media types, see "Custom media types."

List issues assigned to the authenticated user

List issues assigned to the authenticated user across all visible repositories including owned repositories, member repositories, and organization repositories. You can use the filter query parameter to fetch issues that are not necessarily assigned to you.

Note: GitHub's REST API v3 considers every pull request an issue, but not every issue is a pull request. For this reason, "Issues" endpoints may return both issues and pull requests in the response. You can identify pull requests by the pull_request key. Be aware that the id of a pull request returned from "Issues" endpoints will be an issue id. To find out the pull request id, use the "List pull requests" endpoint.

get /issues

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notice
`filter`	string	query	Indicates which sorts of issues to return. Can be one of: * `assigned`: Issues assigned to you * `created`: Issues created by you * `mentioned`: Issues mentioning you * `subscribed`: Issues you're subscribed to updates for * `all`: All issues the authenticated user can see, regardless of participation or creation
`state`	string	query	Indicates the state of the issues to return. Can be either `open`, `closed`, or `all`.
`labels`	string	query	A list of comma separated label names. Example: `bug,ui,@high`
`sort`	string	query	What to sort results by. Can be either `created`, `updated`, `comments`.
`direction`	string	query	One of `asc` (ascending) or `desc` (descending).
`since`	string	query	Only show notifications updated after the given time. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ`.
`collab`	boolean	query
`orgs`	boolean	query
`owned`	boolean	query
`pulls`	boolean	query
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/issues

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /issues')

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUx",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/labels{/name}",
    "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/comments",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/events",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "number": 1347,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "Found a bug",
    "body": "I'm having a problem with this.",
    "user": {
      "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
    },
    "labels": [
      {
        "id": 208045946,
        "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
        "name": "bug",
        "description": "Something isn't working",
        "color": "f29513",
        "default": true
      }
    ],
    "assignee": {
      "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
    },
    "assignees": [
      {
        "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
      }
    ],
    "milestone": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
      "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
      "id": 1002604,
      "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
      "number": 1,
      "state": "open",
      "title": "v1.0",
      "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
      "creator": {
        "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
      },
      "open_issues": 4,
      "closed_issues": 8,
      "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
      "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
      "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
      "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
    },
    "locked": true,
    "active_lock_reason": "too heated",
    "comments": 0,
    "pull_request": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
      "diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
      "patch_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.patch"
    },
    "closed_at": null,
    "created_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
    "repository": {
      "id": 1296269,
      "node_id": "MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkxMjk2MjY5",
      "name": "Hello-World",
      "full_name": "octocat/Hello-World",
      "owner": {
        "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
      },
      "private": false,
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World",
      "description": "This your first repo!",
      "fork": false,
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
      "archive_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/{archive_format}{/ref}",
      "assignees_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/assignees{/user}",
      "blobs_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/blobs{/sha}",
      "branches_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/branches{/branch}",
      "collaborators_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/collaborators{/collaborator}",
      "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/comments{/number}",
      "commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits{/sha}",
      "compare_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/compare/{base}...{head}",
      "contents_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/contents/{+path}",
      "contributors_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/contributors",
      "deployments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/deployments",
      "downloads_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/downloads",
      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/events",
      "forks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/forks",
      "git_commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/commits{/sha}",
      "git_refs_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/refs{/sha}",
      "git_tags_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/tags{/sha}",
      "git_url": "git:github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git",
      "issue_comment_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments{/number}",
      "issue_events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/events{/number}",
      "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues{/number}",
      "keys_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/keys{/key_id}",
      "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels{/name}",
      "languages_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/languages",
      "merges_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/merges",
      "milestones_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones{/number}",
      "notifications_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/notifications{?since,all,participating}",
      "pulls_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls{/number}",
      "releases_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/releases{/id}",
      "ssh_url": "git@github.com:octocat/Hello-World.git",
      "stargazers_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/stargazers",
      "statuses_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/statuses/{sha}",
      "subscribers_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/subscribers",
      "subscription_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/subscription",
      "tags_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/tags",
      "teams_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/teams",
      "trees_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/trees{/sha}",
      "clone_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git",
      "mirror_url": "git:git.example.com/octocat/Hello-World",
      "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/hooks",
      "svn_url": "https://svn.github.com/octocat/Hello-World",
      "homepage": "https://github.com",
      "language": null,
      "forks_count": 9,
      "stargazers_count": 80,
      "watchers_count": 80,
      "size": 108,
      "default_branch": "master",
      "open_issues_count": 0,
      "is_template": true,
      "topics": [
        "octocat",
        "atom",
        "electron",
        "api"
      ],
      "has_issues": true,
      "has_projects": true,
      "has_wiki": true,
      "has_pages": false,
      "has_downloads": true,
      "archived": false,
      "disabled": false,
      "pushed_at": "2011-01-26T19:06:43Z",
      "created_at": "2011-01-26T19:01:12Z",
      "updated_at": "2011-01-26T19:14:43Z",
      "permissions": {
        "admin": false,
        "push": false,
        "pull": true
      },
      "allow_rebase_merge": true,
      "template_repository": null,
      "allow_squash_merge": true,
      "allow_merge_commit": true,
      "subscribers_count": 42,
      "network_count": 0,
      "anonymous_access_enabled": false
    }
  }
]

Not modified

Status: 304 Not Modified

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Preview notice

If an issue event is created via a GitHub App, the response will include the performed_via_github_app object with information about the GitHub App. For more information, see the related blog post. To receive the performed_via_github_app object in the response, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview

List organization issues assigned to the authenticated user

List issues in an organization assigned to the authenticated user.

Note: GitHub's REST API v3 considers every pull request an issue, but not every issue is a pull request. For this reason, "Issues" endpoints may return both issues and pull requests in the response. You can identify pull requests by the pull_request key. Be aware that the id of a pull request returned from "Issues" endpoints will be an issue id. To find out the pull request id, use the "List pull requests" endpoint.

get /orgs/{org}/issues

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notice
`org`	string	path
`filter`	string	query	Indicates which sorts of issues to return. Can be one of: * `assigned`: Issues assigned to you * `created`: Issues created by you * `mentioned`: Issues mentioning you * `subscribed`: Issues you're subscribed to updates for * `all`: All issues the authenticated user can see, regardless of participation or creation
`state`	string	query	Indicates the state of the issues to return. Can be either `open`, `closed`, or `all`.
`labels`	string	query	A list of comma separated label names. Example: `bug,ui,@high`
`sort`	string	query	What to sort results by. Can be either `created`, `updated`, `comments`.
`direction`	string	query	One of `asc` (ascending) or `desc` (descending).
`since`	string	query	Only show notifications updated after the given time. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ`.
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/issues

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /orgs/{org}/issues', {
  org: 'org'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUx",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/labels{/name}",
    "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/comments",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/events",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "number": 1347,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "Found a bug",
    "body": "I'm having a problem with this.",
    "user": {
      "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
    },
    "labels": [
      {
        "id": 208045946,
        "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
        "name": "bug",
        "description": "Something isn't working",
        "color": "f29513",
        "default": true
      }
    ],
    "assignee": {
      "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
    },
    "assignees": [
      {
        "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
      }
    ],
    "milestone": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
      "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
      "id": 1002604,
      "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
      "number": 1,
      "state": "open",
      "title": "v1.0",
      "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
      "creator": {
        "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
      },
      "open_issues": 4,
      "closed_issues": 8,
      "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
      "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
      "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
      "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
    },
    "locked": true,
    "active_lock_reason": "too heated",
    "comments": 0,
    "pull_request": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
      "diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
      "patch_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.patch"
    },
    "closed_at": null,
    "created_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
    "repository": {
      "id": 1296269,
      "node_id": "MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkxMjk2MjY5",
      "name": "Hello-World",
      "full_name": "octocat/Hello-World",
      "owner": {
        "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
      },
      "private": false,
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World",
      "description": "This your first repo!",
      "fork": false,
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
      "archive_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/{archive_format}{/ref}",
      "assignees_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/assignees{/user}",
      "blobs_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/blobs{/sha}",
      "branches_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/branches{/branch}",
      "collaborators_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/collaborators{/collaborator}",
      "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/comments{/number}",
      "commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits{/sha}",
      "compare_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/compare/{base}...{head}",
      "contents_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/contents/{+path}",
      "contributors_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/contributors",
      "deployments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/deployments",
      "downloads_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/downloads",
      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/events",
      "forks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/forks",
      "git_commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/commits{/sha}",
      "git_refs_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/refs{/sha}",
      "git_tags_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/tags{/sha}",
      "git_url": "git:github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git",
      "issue_comment_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments{/number}",
      "issue_events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/events{/number}",
      "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues{/number}",
      "keys_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/keys{/key_id}",
      "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels{/name}",
      "languages_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/languages",
      "merges_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/merges",
      "milestones_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones{/number}",
      "notifications_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/notifications{?since,all,participating}",
      "pulls_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls{/number}",
      "releases_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/releases{/id}",
      "ssh_url": "git@github.com:octocat/Hello-World.git",
      "stargazers_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/stargazers",
      "statuses_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/statuses/{sha}",
      "subscribers_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/subscribers",
      "subscription_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/subscription",
      "tags_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/tags",
      "teams_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/teams",
      "trees_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/trees{/sha}",
      "clone_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git",
      "mirror_url": "git:git.example.com/octocat/Hello-World",
      "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/hooks",
      "svn_url": "https://svn.github.com/octocat/Hello-World",
      "homepage": "https://github.com",
      "language": null,
      "forks_count": 9,
      "stargazers_count": 80,
      "watchers_count": 80,
      "size": 108,
      "default_branch": "master",
      "open_issues_count": 0,
      "is_template": true,
      "topics": [
        "octocat",
        "atom",
        "electron",
        "api"
      ],
      "has_issues": true,
      "has_projects": true,
      "has_wiki": true,
      "has_pages": false,
      "has_downloads": true,
      "archived": false,
      "disabled": false,
      "pushed_at": "2011-01-26T19:06:43Z",
      "created_at": "2011-01-26T19:01:12Z",
      "updated_at": "2011-01-26T19:14:43Z",
      "permissions": {
        "admin": false,
        "push": false,
        "pull": true
      },
      "allow_rebase_merge": true,
      "template_repository": null,
      "allow_squash_merge": true,
      "allow_merge_commit": true,
      "subscribers_count": 42,
      "network_count": 0,
      "anonymous_access_enabled": false
    }
  }
]

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Preview notice

If an issue event is created via a GitHub App, the response will include the performed_via_github_app object with information about the GitHub App. For more information, see the related blog post. To receive the performed_via_github_app object in the response, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview

List repository issues

List issues in a repository.

Note: GitHub's REST API v3 considers every pull request an issue, but not every issue is a pull request. For this reason, "Issues" endpoints may return both issues and pull requests in the response. You can identify pull requests by the pull_request key. Be aware that the id of a pull request returned from "Issues" endpoints will be an issue id. To find out the pull request id, use the "List pull requests" endpoint.

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notice
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`milestone`	string	query	If an `integer` is passed, it should refer to a milestone by its `number` field. If the string `*` is passed, issues with any milestone are accepted. If the string `none` is passed, issues without milestones are returned.
`state`	string	query	Indicates the state of the issues to return. Can be either `open`, `closed`, or `all`.
`assignee`	string	query	Can be the name of a user. Pass in `none` for issues with no assigned user, and `*` for issues assigned to any user.
`creator`	string	query	The user that created the issue.
`mentioned`	string	query	A user that's mentioned in the issue.
`labels`	string	query	A list of comma separated label names. Example: `bug,ui,@high`
`sort`	string	query	What to sort results by. Can be either `created`, `updated`, `comments`.
`direction`	string	query	One of `asc` (ascending) or `desc` (descending).
`since`	string	query	Only show notifications updated after the given time. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ`.
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUx",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/labels{/name}",
    "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/comments",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/events",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "number": 1347,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "Found a bug",
    "body": "I'm having a problem with this.",
    "user": {
      "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
    },
    "labels": [
      {
        "id": 208045946,
        "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
        "name": "bug",
        "description": "Something isn't working",
        "color": "f29513",
        "default": true
      }
    ],
    "assignee": {
      "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
    },
    "assignees": [
      {
        "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
      }
    ],
    "milestone": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
      "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
      "id": 1002604,
      "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
      "number": 1,
      "state": "open",
      "title": "v1.0",
      "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
      "creator": {
        "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
      },
      "open_issues": 4,
      "closed_issues": 8,
      "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
      "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
      "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
      "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
    },
    "locked": true,
    "active_lock_reason": "too heated",
    "comments": 0,
    "pull_request": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
      "diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
      "patch_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.patch"
    },
    "closed_at": null,
    "created_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
    "author_association": "collaborator"
  }
]

Moved permanently

Status: 301 Moved Permanently

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Preview notice

If an issue event is created via a GitHub App, the response will include the performed_via_github_app object with information about the GitHub App. For more information, see the related blog post. To receive the performed_via_github_app object in the response, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview

Create an issue

Any user with pull access to a repository can create an issue. If issues are disabled in the repository, the API returns a 410 Gone status.

This endpoint triggers notifications. Creating content too quickly using this endpoint may result in abuse rate limiting. See "Abuse rate limits" and "Dealing with abuse rate limits" for details.

post /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`title`	string	body	Required. The title of the issue.
`body`	string	body	The contents of the issue.
`assignee`	string or null	body	Login for the user that this issue should be assigned to. NOTE: Only users with push access can set the assignee for new issues. The assignee is silently dropped otherwise. This field is deprecated.
`milestone`	integer or null	body	The `number` of the milestone to associate this issue with. NOTE: Only users with push access can set the milestone for new issues. The milestone is silently dropped otherwise.
`labels`	array of undefineds	body	Labels to associate with this issue. NOTE: Only users with push access can set labels for new issues. Labels are silently dropped otherwise.
`assignees`	array of strings	body	Logins for Users to assign to this issue. NOTE: Only users with push access can set assignees for new issues. Assignees are silently dropped otherwise.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues \
  -d '{"title":"title"}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  title: 'title'
})

Default response

Status: 201 Created

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUx",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
  "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/labels{/name}",
  "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/comments",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/events",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "number": 1347,
  "state": "open",
  "title": "Found a bug",
  "body": "I'm having a problem with this.",
  "user": {
    "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
  },
  "labels": [
    {
      "id": 208045946,
      "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
      "name": "bug",
      "description": "Something isn't working",
      "color": "f29513",
      "default": true
    }
  ],
  "assignee": {
    "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
  },
  "assignees": [
    {
      "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
    }
  ],
  "milestone": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
    "id": 1002604,
    "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
    "number": 1,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "v1.0",
    "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
    "creator": {
      "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
    },
    "open_issues": 4,
    "closed_issues": 8,
    "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
    "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
    "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
    "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
  },
  "locked": true,
  "active_lock_reason": "too heated",
  "comments": 0,
  "pull_request": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
    "diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
    "patch_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.patch"
  },
  "closed_at": null,
  "created_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
  "closed_by": {
    "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
  },
  "author_association": "collaborator"
}

Forbidden

Status: 403 Forbidden

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Service unavailable

Status: 503 Service Unavailable

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Get an issue

The API returns a 301 Moved Permanently status if the issue was transferred to another repository. If the issue was transferred to or deleted from a repository where the authenticated user lacks read access, the API returns a 404 Not Found status. If the issue was deleted from a repository where the authenticated user has read access, the API returns a 410 Gone status. To receive webhook events for transferred and deleted issues, subscribe to the issues webhook.

Note: GitHub's REST API v3 considers every pull request an issue, but not every issue is a pull request. For this reason, "Issues" endpoints may return both issues and pull requests in the response. You can identify pull requests by the pull_request key. Be aware that the id of a pull request returned from "Issues" endpoints will be an issue id. To find out the pull request id, use the "List pull requests" endpoint.

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notice
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUx",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
  "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/labels{/name}",
  "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/comments",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/events",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "number": 1347,
  "state": "open",
  "title": "Found a bug",
  "body": "I'm having a problem with this.",
  "user": {
    "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
  },
  "labels": [
    {
      "id": 208045946,
      "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
      "name": "bug",
      "description": "Something isn't working",
      "color": "f29513",
      "default": true
    }
  ],
  "assignee": {
    "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
  },
  "assignees": [
    {
      "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
    }
  ],
  "milestone": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
    "id": 1002604,
    "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
    "number": 1,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "v1.0",
    "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
    "creator": {
      "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
    },
    "open_issues": 4,
    "closed_issues": 8,
    "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
    "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
    "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
    "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
  },
  "locked": true,
  "active_lock_reason": "too heated",
  "comments": 0,
  "pull_request": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
    "diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
    "patch_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.patch"
  },
  "closed_at": null,
  "created_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
  "closed_by": {
    "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
  },
  "author_association": "collaborator"
}

Moved permanently

Status: 301 Moved Permanently

Not modified

Status: 304 Not Modified

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Preview notice

An additional reactions object in the issue comment payload is currently available for developers to preview. During the preview period, the APIs may change without advance notice. Please see the blog post for full details.

To access the API you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.squirrel-girl-preview

The reactions key will have the following payload where url can be used to construct the API location for listing and creating reactions.

Update an issue

Issue owners and users with push access can edit an issue.

patch /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`title`	string	body	The title of the issue.
`body`	string	body	The contents of the issue.
`assignee`	string	body	Login for the user that this issue should be assigned to. This field is deprecated.
`state`	string	body	State of the issue. Either `open` or `closed`.
`milestone`	integer or null	body	The `number` of the milestone to associate this issue with or `null` to remove current. NOTE: Only users with push access can set the milestone for issues. The milestone is silently dropped otherwise.
`labels`	array of undefineds	body	Labels to associate with this issue. Pass one or more Labels to replace the set of Labels on this Issue. Send an empty array (`[]`) to clear all Labels from the Issue. NOTE: Only users with push access can set labels for issues. Labels are silently dropped otherwise.
`assignees`	array of strings	body	Logins for Users to assign to this issue. Pass one or more user logins to replace the set of assignees on this Issue. Send an empty array (`[]`) to clear all assignees from the Issue. NOTE: Only users with push access can set assignees for new issues. Assignees are silently dropped otherwise.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42 \
  -d '{"title":"title"}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('PATCH /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42,
  title: 'title'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUx",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
  "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/labels{/name}",
  "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/comments",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/events",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "number": 1347,
  "state": "open",
  "title": "Found a bug",
  "body": "I'm having a problem with this.",
  "user": {
    "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
  },
  "labels": [
    {
      "id": 208045946,
      "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
      "name": "bug",
      "description": "Something isn't working",
      "color": "f29513",
      "default": true
    }
  ],
  "assignee": {
    "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
  },
  "assignees": [
    {
      "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
    }
  ],
  "milestone": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
    "id": 1002604,
    "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
    "number": 1,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "v1.0",
    "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
    "creator": {
      "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
    },
    "open_issues": 4,
    "closed_issues": 8,
    "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
    "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
    "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
    "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
  },
  "locked": true,
  "active_lock_reason": "too heated",
  "comments": 0,
  "pull_request": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
    "diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
    "patch_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.patch"
  },
  "closed_at": null,
  "created_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
  "closed_by": {
    "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
  },
  "author_association": "collaborator"
}

Moved permanently

Status: 301 Moved Permanently

Forbidden

Status: 403 Forbidden

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Service unavailable

Status: 503 Service Unavailable

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Lock an issue

Users with push access can lock an issue or pull request's conversation.

Note that, if you choose not to pass any parameters, you'll need to set Content-Length to zero when calling out to this endpoint. For more information, see "HTTP verbs."

put /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/lock

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notice
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`lock_reason`	string	body	The reason for locking the issue or pull request conversation. Lock will fail if you don't use one of these reasons: * `off-topic` * `too heated` * `resolved` * `spam`

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X PUT \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/lock \
  -d '{"lock_reason":"lock_reason"}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('PUT /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/lock', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42,
  lock_reason: 'lock_reason'
})

Default Response

Status: 204 No Content

Forbidden

Status: 403 Forbidden

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Preview notice

You can now use the REST API to add a reason when you lock an issue, and you will see lock reasons in responses that include issues or pull requests. You will also see lock reasons in locked events. This feature is currently available for developers to preview. See the blog post for full details. To access this feature, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.sailor-v-preview+json

Unlock an issue

Users with push access can unlock an issue's conversation.

delete /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/lock

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/lock

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('DELETE /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/lock', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42
})

Default Response

Status: 204 No Content

Forbidden

Status: 403 Forbidden

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

List user account issues assigned to the authenticated user

List issues across owned and member repositories assigned to the authenticated user.

Note: GitHub's REST API v3 considers every pull request an issue, but not every issue is a pull request. For this reason, "Issues" endpoints may return both issues and pull requests in the response. You can identify pull requests by the pull_request key. Be aware that the id of a pull request returned from "Issues" endpoints will be an issue id. To find out the pull request id, use the "List pull requests" endpoint.

get /user/issues

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notice
`filter`	string	query	Indicates which sorts of issues to return. Can be one of: * `assigned`: Issues assigned to you * `created`: Issues created by you * `mentioned`: Issues mentioning you * `subscribed`: Issues you're subscribed to updates for * `all`: All issues the authenticated user can see, regardless of participation or creation
`state`	string	query	Indicates the state of the issues to return. Can be either `open`, `closed`, or `all`.
`labels`	string	query	A list of comma separated label names. Example: `bug,ui,@high`
`sort`	string	query	What to sort results by. Can be either `created`, `updated`, `comments`.
`direction`	string	query	One of `asc` (ascending) or `desc` (descending).
`since`	string	query	Only show notifications updated after the given time. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ`.
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/user/issues

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /user/issues')

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUx",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/labels{/name}",
    "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/comments",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/events",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "number": 1347,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "Found a bug",
    "body": "I'm having a problem with this.",
    "user": {
      "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
    },
    "labels": [
      {
        "id": 208045946,
        "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
        "name": "bug",
        "description": "Something isn't working",
        "color": "f29513",
        "default": true
      }
    ],
    "assignee": {
      "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
    },
    "assignees": [
      {
        "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
      }
    ],
    "milestone": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
      "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
      "id": 1002604,
      "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
      "number": 1,
      "state": "open",
      "title": "v1.0",
      "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
      "creator": {
        "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
      },
      "open_issues": 4,
      "closed_issues": 8,
      "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
      "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
      "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
      "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
    },
    "locked": true,
    "active_lock_reason": "too heated",
    "comments": 0,
    "pull_request": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
      "diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
      "patch_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.patch"
    },
    "closed_at": null,
    "created_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
    "repository": {
      "id": 1296269,
      "node_id": "MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkxMjk2MjY5",
      "name": "Hello-World",
      "full_name": "octocat/Hello-World",
      "owner": {
        "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
      },
      "private": false,
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World",
      "description": "This your first repo!",
      "fork": false,
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
      "archive_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/{archive_format}{/ref}",
      "assignees_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/assignees{/user}",
      "blobs_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/blobs{/sha}",
      "branches_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/branches{/branch}",
      "collaborators_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/collaborators{/collaborator}",
      "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/comments{/number}",
      "commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits{/sha}",
      "compare_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/compare/{base}...{head}",
      "contents_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/contents/{+path}",
      "contributors_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/contributors",
      "deployments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/deployments",
      "downloads_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/downloads",
      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/events",
      "forks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/forks",
      "git_commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/commits{/sha}",
      "git_refs_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/refs{/sha}",
      "git_tags_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/tags{/sha}",
      "git_url": "git:github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git",
      "issue_comment_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments{/number}",
      "issue_events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/events{/number}",
      "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues{/number}",
      "keys_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/keys{/key_id}",
      "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels{/name}",
      "languages_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/languages",
      "merges_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/merges",
      "milestones_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones{/number}",
      "notifications_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/notifications{?since,all,participating}",
      "pulls_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls{/number}",
      "releases_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/releases{/id}",
      "ssh_url": "git@github.com:octocat/Hello-World.git",
      "stargazers_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/stargazers",
      "statuses_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/statuses/{sha}",
      "subscribers_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/subscribers",
      "subscription_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/subscription",
      "tags_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/tags",
      "teams_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/teams",
      "trees_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/trees{/sha}",
      "clone_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World.git",
      "mirror_url": "git:git.example.com/octocat/Hello-World",
      "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/hooks",
      "svn_url": "https://svn.github.com/octocat/Hello-World",
      "homepage": "https://github.com",
      "language": null,
      "forks_count": 9,
      "stargazers_count": 80,
      "watchers_count": 80,
      "size": 108,
      "default_branch": "master",
      "open_issues_count": 0,
      "is_template": true,
      "topics": [
        "octocat",
        "atom",
        "electron",
        "api"
      ],
      "has_issues": true,
      "has_projects": true,
      "has_wiki": true,
      "has_pages": false,
      "has_downloads": true,
      "archived": false,
      "disabled": false,
      "pushed_at": "2011-01-26T19:06:43Z",
      "created_at": "2011-01-26T19:01:12Z",
      "updated_at": "2011-01-26T19:14:43Z",
      "permissions": {
        "admin": false,
        "push": false,
        "pull": true
      },
      "allow_rebase_merge": true,
      "template_repository": null,
      "allow_squash_merge": true,
      "allow_merge_commit": true,
      "subscribers_count": 42,
      "network_count": 0,
      "anonymous_access_enabled": false
    }
  }
]

Not modified

Status: 304 Not Modified

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Preview notice

If an issue event is created via a GitHub App, the response will include the performed_via_github_app object with information about the GitHub App. For more information, see the related blog post. To receive the performed_via_github_app object in the response, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview

Assignees

List assignees

Lists the available assignees for issues in a repository.

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/assignees

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/assignees

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/assignees', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "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
  }
]

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Check if a user can be assigned

Checks if a user has permission to be assigned to an issue in this repository.

If the assignee can be assigned to issues in the repository, a 204 header with no content is returned.

Otherwise a 404 status code is returned.

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/assignees/{assignee}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`assignee`	string	path

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/assignees/ASSIGNEE

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/assignees/{assignee}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  assignee: 'assignee'
})

If the assignee can be assigned to issues in the repository a 204 header with no content is returned

Status: 204 No Content

Otherwise a 404 status code is returned

Status: 404 Not Found

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Add assignees to an issue

Adds up to 10 assignees to an issue. Users already assigned to an issue are not replaced.

post /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/assignees

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`assignees`	array of strings	body	Usernames of people to assign this issue to. NOTE: Only users with push access can add assignees to an issue. Assignees are silently ignored otherwise.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/assignees \
  -d '{"assignees":["assignees"]}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/assignees', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42,
  assignees: [
    'assignees'
  ]
})

Default response

Status: 201 Created

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUx",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
  "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/labels{/name}",
  "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/comments",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/events",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "number": 1347,
  "state": "open",
  "title": "Found a bug",
  "body": "I'm having a problem with this.",
  "user": {
    "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
  },
  "labels": [
    {
      "id": 208045946,
      "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
      "name": "bug",
      "description": "Something isn't working",
      "color": "f29513",
      "default": true
    }
  ],
  "assignee": {
    "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
  },
  "assignees": [
    {
      "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
    },
    {
      "login": "hubot",
      "id": 1,
      "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
      "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/hubot_happy.gif",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/hubot",
      "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/followers",
      "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/following{/other_user}",
      "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/gists{/gist_id}",
      "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
      "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/subscriptions",
      "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/orgs",
      "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/repos",
      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/events{/privacy}",
      "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/received_events",
      "type": "User",
      "site_admin": true
    },
    {
      "login": "other_user",
      "id": 1,
      "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
      "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/other_user_happy.gif",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/other_user",
      "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/followers",
      "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/following{/other_user}",
      "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/gists{/gist_id}",
      "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
      "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/subscriptions",
      "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/orgs",
      "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/repos",
      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/events{/privacy}",
      "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/received_events",
      "type": "User",
      "site_admin": false
    }
  ],
  "milestone": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
    "id": 1002604,
    "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
    "number": 1,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "v1.0",
    "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
    "creator": {
      "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
    },
    "open_issues": 4,
    "closed_issues": 8,
    "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
    "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
    "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
    "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
  },
  "locked": true,
  "active_lock_reason": "too heated",
  "comments": 0,
  "pull_request": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
    "diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
    "patch_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.patch"
  },
  "closed_at": null,
  "created_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
  "author_association": "collaborator"
}

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Remove assignees from an issue

Removes one or more assignees from an issue.

delete /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/assignees

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`assignees`	array of strings	body	Usernames of assignees to remove from an issue. NOTE: Only users with push access can remove assignees from an issue. Assignees are silently ignored otherwise.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/assignees \
  -d '{"assignees":["assignees"]}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('DELETE /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/assignees', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42,
  assignees: [
    'assignees'
  ]
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUx",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
  "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/labels{/name}",
  "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/comments",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/events",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "number": 1347,
  "state": "open",
  "title": "Found a bug",
  "body": "I'm having a problem with this.",
  "user": {
    "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
  },
  "labels": [
    {
      "id": 208045946,
      "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
      "name": "bug",
      "description": "Something isn't working",
      "color": "f29513",
      "default": true
    }
  ],
  "assignee": {
    "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
  },
  "assignees": [
    {
      "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
    },
    {
      "login": "hubot",
      "id": 1,
      "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
      "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/hubot_happy.gif",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/hubot",
      "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/followers",
      "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/following{/other_user}",
      "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/gists{/gist_id}",
      "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
      "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/subscriptions",
      "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/orgs",
      "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/repos",
      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/events{/privacy}",
      "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hubot/received_events",
      "type": "User",
      "site_admin": true
    },
    {
      "login": "other_user",
      "id": 1,
      "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
      "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/other_user_happy.gif",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/other_user",
      "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/followers",
      "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/following{/other_user}",
      "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/gists{/gist_id}",
      "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
      "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/subscriptions",
      "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/orgs",
      "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/repos",
      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/events{/privacy}",
      "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/received_events",
      "type": "User",
      "site_admin": false
    }
  ],
  "milestone": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
    "id": 1002604,
    "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
    "number": 1,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "v1.0",
    "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
    "creator": {
      "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
    },
    "open_issues": 4,
    "closed_issues": 8,
    "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
    "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
    "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
    "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
  },
  "locked": true,
  "active_lock_reason": "too heated",
  "comments": 0,
  "pull_request": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
    "diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
    "patch_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.patch"
  },
  "closed_at": null,
  "created_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
  "author_association": "collaborator"
}

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Comments

The Issue Comments API supports listing, viewing, editing, and creating comments on issues and pull requests.

Issue Comments use these custom media types. You can read more about the use of media types in the API here.

List issue comments for a repository

By default, Issue Comments are ordered by ascending ID.

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notice
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`sort`	string	query	One of `created` (when the repository was starred) or `updated` (when it was last pushed to).
`direction`	string	query	Either `asc` or `desc`. Ignored without the `sort` parameter.
`since`	string	query	Only show notifications updated after the given time. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ`.
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/comments

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments/1",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347#issuecomment-1",
    "body": "Me too",
    "user": {
      "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
    },
    "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
    "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "author_association": "collaborator"
  }
]

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Preview notice

An additional reactions object in the issue comment payload is currently available for developers to preview. During the preview period, the APIs may change without advance notice. Please see the blog post for full details.

To access the API you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.squirrel-girl-preview

The reactions key will have the following payload where url can be used to construct the API location for listing and creating reactions.

Get an issue comment

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments/{comment_id}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notice
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`comment_id`	integer	path	comment_id parameter

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/comments/42

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments/{comment_id}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  comment_id: 42
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE=",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347#issuecomment-1",
  "body": "Me too",
  "user": {
    "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
  },
  "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "author_association": "collaborator"
}

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Preview notice

If an issue event is created via a GitHub App, the response will include the performed_via_github_app object with information about the GitHub App. For more information, see the related blog post. To receive the performed_via_github_app object in the response, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview

Update an issue comment

patch /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments/{comment_id}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`comment_id`	integer	path	comment_id parameter
`body`	string	body	Required. The contents of the comment.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/comments/42 \
  -d '{"body":"body"}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('PATCH /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments/{comment_id}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  comment_id: 42,
  body: 'body'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE=",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347#issuecomment-1",
  "body": "Me too",
  "user": {
    "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
  },
  "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "author_association": "collaborator"
}

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Delete an issue comment

delete /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments/{comment_id}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`comment_id`	integer	path	comment_id parameter

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/comments/42

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('DELETE /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/comments/{comment_id}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  comment_id: 42
})

Default Response

Status: 204 No Content

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

List issue comments

Issue Comments are ordered by ascending ID.

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/comments

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notice
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`since`	string	query	Only show notifications updated after the given time. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ`.
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/comments

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/comments', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments/1",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347#issuecomment-1",
    "body": "Me too",
    "user": {
      "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
    },
    "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
    "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "author_association": "collaborator"
  }
]

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Preview notice

An additional reactions object in the issue comment payload is currently available for developers to preview. During the preview period, the APIs may change without advance notice. Please see the blog post for full details.

To access the API you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.squirrel-girl-preview

The reactions key will have the following payload where url can be used to construct the API location for listing and creating reactions.

Create an issue comment

This endpoint triggers notifications. Creating content too quickly using this endpoint may result in abuse rate limiting. See "Abuse rate limits" and "Dealing with abuse rate limits" for details.

post /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/comments

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`body`	string	body	Required. The contents of the comment.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/comments \
  -d '{"body":"body"}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/comments', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42,
  body: 'body'
})

Default response

Status: 201 Created

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDE=",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347#issuecomment-1",
  "body": "Me too",
  "user": {
    "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
  },
  "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
  "author_association": "collaborator"
}

Forbidden

Status: 403 Forbidden

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Events

The Issue Events API can return different types of events triggered by activity in issues and pull requests. For more information about the specific events that you can receive from the Issue Events API, see "Issue event types." An events API for GitHub activity outside of issues and pull requests is also available. For more information, see the "Events API."

List issue events for a repository

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/events

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notices
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/events

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/events', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEwOklzc3VlRXZlbnQx",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/events/1",
    "actor": {
      "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
    },
    "event": "closed",
    "commit_id": "6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
    "commit_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
    "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
    "issue": {
      "id": 1,
      "node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUx",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
      "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
      "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/labels{/name}",
      "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/comments",
      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/events",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
      "number": 1347,
      "state": "open",
      "title": "Found a bug",
      "body": "I'm having a problem with this.",
      "user": {
        "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
      },
      "labels": [
        {
          "id": 208045946,
          "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
          "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
          "name": "bug",
          "description": "Something isn't working",
          "color": "f29513",
          "default": true
        }
      ],
      "assignee": {
        "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
      },
      "assignees": [
        {
          "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
        }
      ],
      "milestone": {
        "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
        "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
        "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
        "id": 1002604,
        "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
        "number": 1,
        "state": "open",
        "title": "v1.0",
        "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
        "creator": {
          "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
        },
        "open_issues": 4,
        "closed_issues": 8,
        "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
        "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
        "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
        "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
      },
      "locked": true,
      "active_lock_reason": "too heated",
      "comments": 0,
      "pull_request": {
        "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
        "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
        "diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
        "patch_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.patch"
      },
      "closed_at": null,
      "created_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
      "updated_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
      "author_association": "collaborator"
    }
  }
]

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Preview notices

Project card details are now shown in REST API v3 responses for project-related issue and timeline events. This feature is now available for developers to preview. For details, see the blog post.

To receive the project_card attribute, project boards must be enabled for a repository, and you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.starfox-preview+json

You can now use the REST API to add a reason when you lock an issue, and you will see lock reasons in responses that include issues or pull requests. You will also see lock reasons in locked events. This feature is currently available for developers to preview. See the blog post for full details. To access this feature, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.sailor-v-preview+json

Get an issue event

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/events/{event_id}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notices
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`event_id`	integer	path

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/events/42

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/events/{event_id}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  event_id: 42
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDEwOklzc3VlRXZlbnQx",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/events/1",
  "actor": {
    "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
  },
  "event": "closed",
  "commit_id": "6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
  "commit_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
  "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "issue": {
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDU6SXNzdWUx",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/labels{/name}",
    "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/comments",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347/events",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347",
    "number": 1347,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "Found a bug",
    "body": "I'm having a problem with this.",
    "user": {
      "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
    },
    "labels": [
      {
        "id": 208045946,
        "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
        "name": "bug",
        "description": "Something isn't working",
        "color": "f29513",
        "default": true
      }
    ],
    "assignee": {
      "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
    },
    "assignees": [
      {
        "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
      }
    ],
    "milestone": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
      "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
      "id": 1002604,
      "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
      "number": 1,
      "state": "open",
      "title": "v1.0",
      "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
      "creator": {
        "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
      },
      "open_issues": 4,
      "closed_issues": 8,
      "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
      "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
      "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
      "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
    },
    "locked": true,
    "active_lock_reason": "too heated",
    "comments": 0,
    "pull_request": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1347",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347",
      "diff_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.diff",
      "patch_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1347.patch"
    },
    "closed_at": null,
    "created_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-04-22T13:33:48Z",
    "author_association": "collaborator"
  }
}

Forbidden

Status: 403 Forbidden

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Preview notices

Project card details are now shown in REST API v3 responses for project-related issue and timeline events. This feature is now available for developers to preview. For details, see the blog post.

To receive the project_card attribute, project boards must be enabled for a repository, and you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.starfox-preview+json

You can now use the REST API to add a reason when you lock an issue, and you will see lock reasons in responses that include issues or pull requests. You will also see lock reasons in locked events. This feature is currently available for developers to preview. See the blog post for full details. To access this feature, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.sailor-v-preview+json

If an issue event is created via a GitHub App, the response will include the performed_via_github_app object with information about the GitHub App. For more information, see the related blog post. To receive the performed_via_github_app object in the response, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview

List issue events

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/events

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended. See preview notices
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/events

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/events', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEwOklzc3VlRXZlbnQx",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/events/1",
    "actor": {
      "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
    },
    "event": "closed",
    "commit_id": "6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
    "commit_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
    "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z"
  }
]

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Preview notices

Project card details are now shown in REST API v3 responses for project-related issue and timeline events. This feature is now available for developers to preview. For details, see the blog post.

To receive the project_card attribute, project boards must be enabled for a repository, and you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.starfox-preview+json

You can now use the REST API to add a reason when you lock an issue, and you will see lock reasons in responses that include issues or pull requests. You will also see lock reasons in locked events. This feature is currently available for developers to preview. See the blog post for full details. To access this feature, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.sailor-v-preview+json

Labels

List labels for an issue

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/labels

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/labels

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/labels', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 208045946,
    "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
    "name": "bug",
    "description": "Something isn't working",
    "color": "f29513",
    "default": true
  },
  {
    "id": 208045947,
    "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDc=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/enhancement",
    "name": "enhancement",
    "description": "New feature or request",
    "color": "a2eeef",
    "default": false
  }
]

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Add labels to an issue

post /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/labels

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`labels`	array of strings	body	Required. The name of the label to add to the issue. Must contain at least one label. Note: Alternatively, you can pass a single label as a `string` or an `array` of labels directly, but GitHub recommends passing an object with the `labels` key.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/labels \
  -d '{"labels":["labels"]}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/labels', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42,
  labels: [
    'labels'
  ]
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 208045946,
    "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
    "name": "bug",
    "description": "Something isn't working",
    "color": "f29513",
    "default": true
  },
  {
    "id": 208045947,
    "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDc=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/enhancement",
    "name": "enhancement",
    "description": "New feature or request",
    "color": "a2eeef",
    "default": false
  }
]

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Set labels for an issue

Removes any previous labels and sets the new labels for an issue.

put /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/labels

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`labels`	array of strings	body	The names of the labels to add to the issue. You can pass an empty array to remove all labels. Note: Alternatively, you can pass a single label as a `string` or an `array` of labels directly, but GitHub recommends passing an object with the `labels` key.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X PUT \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/labels \
  -d '{"labels":["labels"]}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('PUT /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/labels', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42,
  labels: [
    'labels'
  ]
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 208045946,
    "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
    "name": "bug",
    "description": "Something isn't working",
    "color": "f29513",
    "default": true
  },
  {
    "id": 208045947,
    "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDc=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/enhancement",
    "name": "enhancement",
    "description": "New feature or request",
    "color": "a2eeef",
    "default": false
  }
]

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Remove all labels from an issue

delete /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/labels

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/labels

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('DELETE /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/labels', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42
})

Default Response

Status: 204 No Content

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Remove a label from an issue

Removes the specified label from the issue, and returns the remaining labels on the issue. This endpoint returns a 404 Not Found status if the label does not exist.

delete /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/labels/{name}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`name`	string	path

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/labels/NAME

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('DELETE /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/labels/{name}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42,
  name: 'name'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 208045946,
    "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
    "name": "bug",
    "description": "Something isn't working",
    "color": "f29513",
    "default": true
  }
]

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

List labels for a repository

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/labels

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 208045946,
    "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
    "name": "bug",
    "description": "Something isn't working",
    "color": "f29513",
    "default": true
  },
  {
    "id": 208045947,
    "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDc=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/enhancement",
    "name": "enhancement",
    "description": "New feature or request",
    "color": "a2eeef",
    "default": false
  }
]

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Create a label

post /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`name`	string	body	Required. The name of the label. Emoji can be added to label names, using either native emoji or colon-style markup. For example, typing `:strawberry:` will render the emoji . For a full list of available emoji and codes, see emoji-cheat-sheet.com.
`color`	string	body	The hexadecimal color code for the label, without the leading `#`.
`description`	string	body	A short description of the label.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/labels \
  -d '{"name":"name"}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  name: 'name'
})

Default response

Status: 201 Created

{
  "id": 208045946,
  "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
  "name": "bug",
  "description": "Something isn't working",
  "color": "f29513",
  "default": true
}

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Get a label

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels/{name}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`name`	string	path

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/labels/NAME

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels/{name}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  name: 'name'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "id": 208045946,
  "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
  "name": "bug",
  "description": "Something isn't working",
  "color": "f29513",
  "default": true
}

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Update a label

patch /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels/{name}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`name`	string	path
`new_name`	string	body	The new name of the label. Emoji can be added to label names, using either native emoji or colon-style markup. For example, typing `:strawberry:` will render the emoji . For a full list of available emoji and codes, see emoji-cheat-sheet.com.
`color`	string	body	The hexadecimal color code for the label, without the leading `#`.
`description`	string	body	A short description of the label.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/labels/NAME \
  -d '{"new_name":"new_name"}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('PATCH /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels/{name}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  name: 'name',
  new_name: 'new_name'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "id": 208045946,
  "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug%20:bug:",
  "name": "bug :bug:",
  "description": "Small bug fix required",
  "color": "b01f26",
  "default": true
}

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Delete a label

delete /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels/{name}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`name`	string	path

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/labels/NAME

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('DELETE /repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels/{name}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  name: 'name'
})

Default Response

Status: 204 No Content

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

List labels for issues in a milestone

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones/{milestone_number}/labels

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`milestone_number`	integer	path	milestone_number parameter
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/milestones/42/labels

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones/{milestone_number}/labels', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  milestone_number: 42
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 208045946,
    "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
    "name": "bug",
    "description": "Something isn't working",
    "color": "f29513",
    "default": true
  },
  {
    "id": 208045947,
    "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDc=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/enhancement",
    "name": "enhancement",
    "description": "New feature or request",
    "color": "a2eeef",
    "default": false
  }
]

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Milestones

List milestones

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`state`	string	query	The state of the milestone. Either `open`, `closed`, or `all`.
`sort`	string	query	What to sort results by. Either `due_on` or `completeness`.
`direction`	string	query	The direction of the sort. Either `asc` or `desc`.
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/milestones

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
    "id": 1002604,
    "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
    "number": 1,
    "state": "open",
    "title": "v1.0",
    "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
    "creator": {
      "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
    },
    "open_issues": 4,
    "closed_issues": 8,
    "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
    "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
    "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
    "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
  }
]

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Create a milestone

post /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`title`	string	body	Required. The title of the milestone.
`state`	string	body	The state of the milestone. Either `open` or `closed`. Default: `open`
`description`	string	body	A description of the milestone.
`due_on`	string	body	The milestone due date. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ`.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/milestones \
  -d '{"title":"title"}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  title: 'title'
})

Default response

Status: 201 Created

{
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
  "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
  "id": 1002604,
  "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
  "number": 1,
  "state": "open",
  "title": "v1.0",
  "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
  "creator": {
    "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
  },
  "open_issues": 4,
  "closed_issues": 8,
  "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
  "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
  "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
  "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
}

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Validation failed

Status: 422 Unprocessable Entity

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Get a milestone

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones/{milestone_number}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`milestone_number`	integer	path	milestone_number parameter

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/milestones/42

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones/{milestone_number}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  milestone_number: 42
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
  "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
  "id": 1002604,
  "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
  "number": 1,
  "state": "open",
  "title": "v1.0",
  "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
  "creator": {
    "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
  },
  "open_issues": 4,
  "closed_issues": 8,
  "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
  "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
  "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
  "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
}

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Update a milestone

patch /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones/{milestone_number}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`milestone_number`	integer	path	milestone_number parameter
`title`	string	body	The title of the milestone.
`state`	string	body	The state of the milestone. Either `open` or `closed`. Default: `open`
`description`	string	body	A description of the milestone.
`due_on`	string	body	The milestone due date. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ`.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/milestones/42 \
  -d '{"title":"title"}'

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('PATCH /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones/{milestone_number}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  milestone_number: 42,
  title: 'title'
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/v1.0",
  "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/milestones/1/labels",
  "id": 1002604,
  "node_id": "MDk6TWlsZXN0b25lMTAwMjYwNA==",
  "number": 1,
  "state": "open",
  "title": "v1.0",
  "description": "Tracking milestone for version 1.0",
  "creator": {
    "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
  },
  "open_issues": 4,
  "closed_issues": 8,
  "created_at": "2011-04-10T20:09:31Z",
  "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
  "closed_at": "2013-02-12T13:22:01Z",
  "due_on": "2012-10-09T23:39:01Z"
}

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Delete a milestone

delete /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones/{milestone_number}

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`milestone_number`	integer	path	milestone_number parameter

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/milestones/42

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('DELETE /repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones/{milestone_number}', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  milestone_number: 42
})

Default Response

Status: 204 No Content

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Timeline

The Timeline Events API can return different types of events triggered by timeline activity in issues and pull requests. For more information about the specific events that you can receive from the Issue Events API, see "Issue event types." An events API for GitHub activity outside of issues and pull requests is also available. For more information, see the "GitHub Events API."

You can use this API to display information about issues and pull request or determine who should be notified of issue comments.

List timeline events for an issue

get /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/timeline

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Description
`accept`	string	header	This API is under preview and subject to change. See preview notices
`owner`	string	path
`repo`	string	path
`issue_number`	integer	path	issue_number parameter
`per_page`	integer	query	Results per page (max 100)
`page`	integer	query	Page number of the results to fetch.

Code samples

Shell

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.mockingbird-preview+json" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/hello-world/issues/42/timeline

JavaScript (@octokit/core.js)

await octokit.request('GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue_number}/timeline', {
  owner: 'octocat',
  repo: 'hello-world',
  issue_number: 42,
  mediaType: {
    previews: [
      'mockingbird'
    ]
  }
})

Default response

Status: 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEwOklzc3VlRXZlbnQx",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/events/1",
    "actor": {
      "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
    },
    "event": "closed",
    "commit_id": "6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
    "commit_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
    "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z"
  }
]

Resource not found

Status: 404 Not Found

Gone

Status: 410 Gone

Preview header missing

Status: 415 Unsupported Media Type

Notes

Works with GitHub Apps

Preview notices

The API to get issue timeline events is currently available for developers to preview. During the preview period, the APIs may change without advance notice. Please see the blog post for full details. To access the API you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.mockingbird-preview

☝️ This header is required.

Project card details are now shown in REST API v3 responses for project-related issue and timeline events. This feature is now available for developers to preview. For details, see the blog post.

To receive the project_card attribute, project boards must be enabled for a repository, and you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.starfox-preview+json