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After a site administrator upgrades your Enterprise Server instance to Enterprise Server 3.9 or later, the REST API will be versioned. To learn how to find your instance's version, see "About versions of GitHub Docs". For more information, see "About API versioning."

Git blobs

Use the REST API to interact with a Git blob (binary large object), the object type used to store the contents of each file in a repository.

About Git blobs

A Git blob (binary large object) is the object type used to store the contents of each file in a repository. The file's SHA-1 hash is computed and stored in the blob object. These endpoints allow you to read and write blob objects to your Git database on GitHub Enterprise Server. Blobs leverage these custom media types. You can read more about the use of media types in the API here.

Custom media types for blobs

These are the supported media types for blobs.

application/json
application/vnd.github.raw

For more information, see "Media types."

Create a blob

Works with GitHub Apps

Parameters for "Create a blob"

Headers
Name, Type, Description
accept string

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
owner string Required

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

repo string Required

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

Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
content string Required

The new blob's content.

encoding string

The encoding used for content. Currently, "utf-8" and "base64" are supported.

Default: utf-8

HTTP response status codes for "Create a blob"

Status codeDescription
201

Created

403

Forbidden

404

Resource not found

409

Conflict

422

Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

Code samples for "Create a blob"

post/repos/{owner}/{repo}/git/blobs
curl -L \ -X POST \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/repos/OWNER/REPO/git/blobs \ -d '{"content":"Content of the blob","encoding":"utf-8"}'

Response

Status: 201
{ "url": "https://HOSTNAME/repos/octocat/example/git/blobs/3a0f86fb8db8eea7ccbb9a95f325ddbedfb25e15", "sha": "3a0f86fb8db8eea7ccbb9a95f325ddbedfb25e15" }

Get a blob

Works with GitHub Apps

The content in the response will always be Base64 encoded.

Note: This API supports blobs up to 100 megabytes in size.

Parameters for "Get a blob"

Headers
Name, Type, Description
accept string

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
owner string Required

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

repo string Required

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

file_sha string Required

HTTP response status codes for "Get a blob"

Status codeDescription
200

OK

403

Forbidden

404

Resource not found

422

Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

Code samples for "Get a blob"

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

Response

Status: 200
{ "content": "Q29udGVudCBvZiB0aGUgYmxvYg==", "encoding": "base64", "url": "https://HOSTNAME/repos/octocat/example/git/blobs/3a0f86fb8db8eea7ccbb9a95f325ddbedfb25e15", "sha": "3a0f86fb8db8eea7ccbb9a95f325ddbedfb25e15", "size": 19, "node_id": "Q29udGVudCBvZiB0aGUgYmxvYg==" }