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GitHub Actions Artifacts

The GitHub Actions Artifacts API allows you to download, delete, and retrieve information about workflow artifacts.

About the Artifacts API

The GitHub Actions Artifacts API allows you to download, delete, and retrieve information about workflow artifacts. Artifacts enable you to share data between jobs in a workflow and store data once that workflow has completed. For more information, see "Storing workflow data as artifacts."

This API is available for authenticated users, OAuth Apps, and GitHub Apps. Access tokens require repo scope for private repositories and public_repo scope for public repositories. GitHub Apps must have the actions permission to use this API.

List artifacts for a repository

Works with GitHub Apps

Lists all artifacts for a repository. Anyone with read access to the repository can use this endpoint. If the repository is private you must use an access token with the repo scope. GitHub Apps must have the actions:read permission to use this endpoint.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
ownerstringRequired

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

repostringRequired

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

Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
per_pageinteger

The number of results per page (max 100).

Default: 30

pageinteger

Page number of the results to fetch.

Default: 1

namestring

Filters artifacts by exact match on their name field.

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

Code samples

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

Response

Status: 200
{ "total_count": 2, "artifacts": [ { "id": 11, "node_id": "MDg6QXJ0aWZhY3QxMQ==", "name": "Rails", "size_in_bytes": 556, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-docs/actions/artifacts/11", "archive_download_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-docs/actions/artifacts/11/zip", "expired": false, "created_at": "2020-01-10T14:59:22Z", "expires_at": "2020-03-21T14:59:22Z", "updated_at": "2020-02-21T14:59:22Z" }, { "id": 13, "node_id": "MDg6QXJ0aWZhY3QxMw==", "name": "Test output", "size_in_bytes": 453, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-docs/actions/artifacts/13", "archive_download_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-docs/actions/artifacts/13/zip", "expired": false, "created_at": "2020-01-10T14:59:22Z", "expires_at": "2020-03-21T14:59:22Z", "updated_at": "2020-02-21T14:59:22Z" } ] }

Get an artifact

Works with GitHub Apps

Gets a specific artifact for a workflow run. Anyone with read access to the repository can use this endpoint. If the repository is private you must use an access token with the repo scope. GitHub Apps must have the actions:read permission to use this endpoint.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
ownerstringRequired

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

repostringRequired

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

artifact_idintegerRequired

The unique identifier of the artifact.

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

Code samples

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

Response

Status: 200
{ "id": 11, "node_id": "MDg6QXJ0aWZhY3QxMQ==", "name": "Rails", "size_in_bytes": 556, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-docs/actions/artifacts/11", "archive_download_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-docs/actions/artifacts/11/zip", "expired": false, "created_at": "2020-01-10T14:59:22Z", "expires_at": "2020-01-21T14:59:22Z", "updated_at": "2020-01-21T14:59:22Z" }

Delete an artifact

Works with GitHub Apps

Deletes an artifact for a workflow run. You must authenticate using an access token with the repo scope to use this endpoint. GitHub Apps must have the actions:write permission to use this endpoint.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
ownerstringRequired

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

repostringRequired

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

artifact_idintegerRequired

The unique identifier of the artifact.

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
204

No Content

Code samples

delete/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/artifacts/{artifact_id}
curl \ -X DELETE \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/repos/OWNER/REPO/actions/artifacts/ARTIFACT_ID

Response

Status: 204

Download an artifact

Works with GitHub Apps

Gets a redirect URL to download an archive for a repository. This URL expires after 1 minute. Look for Location: in the response header to find the URL for the download. The :archive_format must be zip. Anyone with read access to the repository can use this endpoint. If the repository is private you must use an access token with the repo scope. GitHub Apps must have the actions:read permission to use this endpoint.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
ownerstringRequired

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

repostringRequired

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

artifact_idintegerRequired

The unique identifier of the artifact.

archive_formatstringRequired

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
302

Found

410

Gone

Code samples

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/artifacts/{artifact_id}/{archive_format}
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/repos/OWNER/REPO/actions/artifacts/ARTIFACT_ID/ARCHIVE_FORMAT

Response

Status: 302

List workflow run artifacts

Works with GitHub Apps

Lists artifacts for a workflow run. Anyone with read access to the repository can use this endpoint. If the repository is private you must use an access token with the repo scope. GitHub Apps must have the actions:read permission to use this endpoint.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
ownerstringRequired

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

repostringRequired

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

run_idintegerRequired

The unique identifier of the workflow run.

Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
per_pageinteger

The number of results per page (max 100).

Default: 30

pageinteger

Page number of the results to fetch.

Default: 1

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

Code samples

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run_id}/artifacts
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/repos/OWNER/REPO/actions/runs/RUN_ID/artifacts

Response

Status: 200
{ "total_count": 2, "artifacts": [ { "id": 11, "node_id": "MDg6QXJ0aWZhY3QxMQ==", "name": "Rails", "size_in_bytes": 556, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-docs/actions/artifacts/11", "archive_download_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-docs/actions/artifacts/11/zip", "expired": false, "created_at": "2020-01-10T14:59:22Z", "expires_at": "2020-03-21T14:59:22Z", "updated_at": "2020-02-21T14:59:22Z" }, { "id": 13, "node_id": "MDg6QXJ0aWZhY3QxMw==", "name": "Test output", "size_in_bytes": 453, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-docs/actions/artifacts/13", "archive_download_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-docs/actions/artifacts/13/zip", "expired": false, "created_at": "2020-01-10T14:59:22Z", "expires_at": "2020-03-21T14:59:22Z", "updated_at": "2020-02-21T14:59:22Z" } ] }