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Events

Use the REST API to interact with GitHub events.

About GitHub events

GitHub events power the various activity streams on the site.

You can use the REST API to return different types of events triggered by activity on GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information about the specific events that you can receive, see "GitHub Event types." Endpoints for repository issues are also available. For more information, see "Issue Events."

Events are optimized for polling with the "ETag" header. If no new events have been triggered, you will see a "304 Not Modified" response, and your current rate limit will be untouched. There is also an "X-Poll-Interval" header that specifies how often (in seconds) you are allowed to poll. In times of high server load, the time may increase. Please obey the header.

$ curl -I http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/users/tater/events
> HTTP/2 200
> X-Poll-Interval: 60
> ETag: "a18c3bded88eb5dbb5c849a489412bf3"

# The quotes around the ETag value are important
$ curl -I http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/users/tater/events \
$    -H 'If-None-Match: "a18c3bded88eb5dbb5c849a489412bf3"'
> HTTP/2 304
> X-Poll-Interval: 60

Only events created within the past 90 days will be included in timelines. Events older than 90 days will not be included (even if the total number of events in the timeline is less than 300).

List public events

Works with GitHub Apps

We delay the public events feed by five minutes, which means the most recent event returned by the public events API actually occurred at least five minutes ago.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

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

304

Not modified

403

Forbidden

503

Service unavailable

Code samples

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

Response

Status: 200
[ { "id": "22249084947", "type": "WatchEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "action": "started" }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-09T12:47:28Z" }, { "id": "22249084964", "type": "PushEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "push_id": 10115855396, "size": 1, "distinct_size": 1, "ref": "refs/heads/master", "head": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "before": "883efe034920928c47fe18598c01249d1a9fdabd", "commits": [ { "sha": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "author": { "email": "octocat@github.com", "name": "Monalisa Octocat" }, "message": "commit", "distinct": true, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300" } ] }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-07T07:50:26Z" } ]

List public events for a network of repositories

Works with GitHub Apps

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

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

301

Moved permanently

304

Not modified

403

Forbidden

404

Resource not found

Code samples

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

Response

Status: 200
[ { "id": "22249084964", "type": "PushEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "push_id": 10115855396, "size": 1, "distinct_size": 1, "ref": "refs/heads/master", "head": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "before": "883efe034920928c47fe18598c01249d1a9fdabd", "commits": [ { "sha": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "author": { "email": "octocat@github.com", "name": "Monalisa Octocat" }, "message": "commit", "distinct": true, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300" } ] }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-09T12:47:28Z" }, { "id": "22237752260", "type": "WatchEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/rrubenich", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "action": "started" }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-08T23:29:25Z" } ]

List public organization events

Works with GitHub Apps

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
orgstringRequired

The organization name. 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

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

Code samples

get/orgs/{org}/events
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/orgs/ORG/events

Response

Status: 200
[ { "id": "22237752260", "type": "WatchEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octo-org/octo-repo", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/octo-repo" }, "payload": { "action": "started" }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-08T23:29:25Z" }, { "id": "22249084964", "type": "PushEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octo-org/octo-repo", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/oct-repo" }, "payload": { "push_id": 10115855396, "size": 1, "distinct_size": 1, "ref": "refs/heads/master", "head": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "before": "883efe034920928c47fe18598c01249d1a9fdabd", "commits": [ { "sha": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "author": { "email": "octocat@github.com", "name": "Monalisa Octocat" }, "message": "commit", "distinct": true, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octo-org/oct-repo/commits/7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300" } ] }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-09T12:47:28Z" } ]

List repository events

Works with GitHub Apps

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

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

Code samples

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

Response

Status: 200
[ { "id": "22249084964", "type": "PushEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "push_id": 10115855396, "size": 1, "distinct_size": 1, "ref": "refs/heads/master", "head": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "before": "883efe034920928c47fe18598c01249d1a9fdabd", "commits": [ { "sha": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "author": { "email": "octocat@github.com", "name": "Monalisa Octocat" }, "message": "commit", "distinct": true, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300" } ] }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-09T12:47:28Z" }, { "id": "22237752260", "type": "WatchEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "action": "started" }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-08T23:29:25Z" } ]

List events for the authenticated user

Works with GitHub Apps

If you are authenticated as the given user, you will see your private events. Otherwise, you'll only see public events.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
usernamestringRequired

The handle for the GitHub user account.

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/users/{username}/events
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/users/USERNAME/events

Response

Status: 200
[ { "id": "22249084947", "type": "WatchEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "action": "started" }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-09T12:47:28Z" }, { "id": "22249084964", "type": "PushEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "push_id": 10115855396, "size": 1, "distinct_size": 1, "ref": "refs/heads/master", "head": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "before": "883efe034920928c47fe18598c01249d1a9fdabd", "commits": [ { "sha": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "author": { "email": "octocat@github.com", "name": "Monalisa Octocat" }, "message": "commit", "distinct": true, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300" } ] }, "public": false, "created_at": "2022-06-07T07:50:26Z" } ]

List organization events for the authenticated user

This is the user's organization dashboard. You must be authenticated as the user to view this.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
usernamestringRequired

The handle for the GitHub user account.

orgstringRequired

The organization name. 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

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

Code samples

get/users/{username}/events/orgs/{org}
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/users/USERNAME/events/orgs/ORG

Response

Status: 200
[ { "id": "22249084964", "type": "PushEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "push_id": 10115855396, "size": 1, "distinct_size": 1, "ref": "refs/heads/master", "head": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "before": "883efe034920928c47fe18598c01249d1a9fdabd", "commits": [ { "sha": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "author": { "email": "octocat@github.com", "name": "Monalisa Octocat" }, "message": "commit", "distinct": true, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300" } ] }, "public": false, "created_at": "2022-06-09T12:47:28Z" }, { "id": "22196946742", "type": "CreateEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "ref": null, "ref_type": "repository", "master_branch": "master", "description": null, "pusher_type": "user" }, "public": false, "created_at": "2022-06-07T07:50:26Z", "org": { "id": 9919, "login": "github", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9919?" } } ]

List public events for a user

Works with GitHub Apps

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
usernamestringRequired

The handle for the GitHub user account.

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/users/{username}/events/public
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/users/USERNAME/events/public

Response

Status: 200
[ { "id": "22249084947", "type": "WatchEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "action": "started" }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-09T12:47:28Z" }, { "id": "22249084964", "type": "PushEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "push_id": 10115855396, "size": 1, "distinct_size": 1, "ref": "refs/heads/master", "head": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "before": "883efe034920928c47fe18598c01249d1a9fdabd", "commits": [ { "sha": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "author": { "email": "octocat@github.com", "name": "Monalisa Octocat" }, "message": "commit", "distinct": true, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300" } ] }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-08T23:29:25Z" } ]

List events received by the authenticated user

Works with GitHub Apps

These are events that you've received by watching repos and following users. If you are authenticated as the given user, you will see private events. Otherwise, you'll only see public events.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
usernamestringRequired

The handle for the GitHub user account.

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/users/{username}/received_events
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/users/USERNAME/received_events

Response

Status: 200
[ { "id": "22249084964", "type": "PushEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "push_id": 10115855396, "size": 1, "distinct_size": 1, "ref": "refs/heads/master", "head": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "before": "883efe034920928c47fe18598c01249d1a9fdabd", "commits": [ { "sha": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300", "author": { "email": "octocat@github.com", "name": "Monalisa Octocat" }, "message": "commit", "distinct": true, "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300" } ] }, "public": true, "created_at": "2022-06-09T12:47:28Z" }, { "id": "22196946742", "type": "CreateEvent", "actor": { "id": 583231, "login": "octocat", "display_login": "octocat", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4" }, "repo": { "id": 1296269, "name": "octocat/Hello-World", "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World" }, "payload": { "ref": null, "ref_type": "repository", "master_branch": "master", "description": null, "pusher_type": "user" }, "public": false, "created_at": "2022-06-07T07:50:26Z", "org": { "id": 9919, "login": "github", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github", "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9919?" } } ]

List public events received by a user

Works with GitHub Apps

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
usernamestringRequired

The handle for the GitHub user account.

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/users/{username}/received_events/public
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/users/USERNAME/received_events/public

Response

Status: 200
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