Feeds

About the Feeds API

To see what feeds are available to you, use the Get feeds operation. You can then get a feed by sending a request to one of the feed URLs.

Example of getting an Atom feed

To get a feed in Atom format, you must specify the application/atom+xml type in the Accept header. For example, to get the Atom feed for GitHub security advisories:

curl -H "Accept: application/atom+xml" https://github.com/security-advisories

Response

HTTP/2 200

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" 
xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" 
xml:lang="en-US">
  <id>tag:github.com,2008:/security-advisories</id>
  <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" 
  href="https://github.com/security-advisories.atom"/>
  <title>GitHub Security Advisory Feed</title>
  <author>
    <name>GitHub</name>
  </author>
  <updated>2019-01-14T19:34:52Z</updated>
     <entry>
      <id>tag:github.com,2008:GHSA-abcd-12ab-23cd</id>
      <published>2018-07-26T15:14:52Z</published>
      <updated>2019-01-14T19:34:52Z</updated>
      <title type="html">[GHSA-abcd-12ab-23cd] Moderate 
      severity vulnerability that affects Octoapp</title>
        <category term="NPM"/>
      <content type="html">
        &lt;p&gt;Octoapp node module before 4.17.5 suffers 
        from a Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data (MAID) 
        vulnerability via defaultsDeep, merge, and mergeWith 
        functions, which allows a malicious user to modify 
        the prototype of &quot;Object&quot; via 
        &lt;strong&gt;proto&lt;/strong&gt;, causing the 
        addition or modification of an existing property 
        that will exist on all objects.&lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected Packages&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;dl&gt;
      &lt;dt&gt;Octoapp&lt;/dt&gt;
      &lt;dd&gt;Ecosystem: npm&lt;/dd&gt;
      &lt;dd&gt;Severity: moderate&lt;/dd&gt;
      &lt;dd&gt;Versions: &amp;lt; 4.17.5&lt;/dd&gt;
        &lt;dd&gt;Fixed in: 4.17.5&lt;/dd&gt;
  &lt;/dl&gt;

          &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;References&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;ul&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-123&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;/ul&gt;

      </content>
    </entry>
</feed>

Get feeds

Works with GitHub Apps

GitHub Enterprise Server provides several timeline resources in Atom format. The Feeds API lists all the feeds available to the authenticated user:

Timeline: The GitHub Enterprise Server global public timeline
User: The public timeline for any user, using URI template
Current user public: The public timeline for the authenticated user
Current user: The private timeline for the authenticated user
Current user actor: The private timeline for activity created by the authenticated user
Current user organizations: The private timeline for the organizations the authenticated user is a member of.
Security advisories: A collection of public announcements that provide information about security-related vulnerabilities in software on GitHub Enterprise Server.

Note: Private feeds are only returned when authenticating via Basic Auth since current feed URIs use the older, non revocable auth tokens.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK

Code samples

get/feeds

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/feeds

Response

Status: 200

{
  "timeline_url": "https://github.com/timeline",
  "user_url": "https://github.com/{user}",
  "current_user_public_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
  "current_user_url": "https://github.com/octocat.private?token=abc123",
  "current_user_actor_url": "https://github.com/octocat.private.actor?token=abc123",
  "current_user_organization_url": "",
  "current_user_organization_urls": [
    "https://github.com/organizations/github/octocat.private.atom?token=abc123"
  ],
  "security_advisories_url": "https://github.com/security-advisories",
  "_links": {
    "timeline": {
      "href": "https://github.com/timeline",
      "type": "application/atom+xml"
    },
    "user": {
      "href": "https://github.com/{user}",
      "type": "application/atom+xml"
    },
    "current_user_public": {
      "href": "https://github.com/octocat",
      "type": "application/atom+xml"
    },
    "current_user": {
      "href": "https://github.com/octocat.private?token=abc123",
      "type": "application/atom+xml"
    },
    "current_user_actor": {
      "href": "https://github.com/octocat.private.actor?token=abc123",
      "type": "application/atom+xml"
    },
    "current_user_organization": {
      "href": "",
      "type": ""
    },
    "current_user_organizations": [
      {
        "href": "https://github.com/organizations/github/octocat.private.atom?token=abc123",
        "type": "application/atom+xml"
      }
    ]
  }
}