The REST API is now versioned. For more information, see "About API versioning."
Feeds
Use the REST API to interact with GitHub feeds.
About GitHub feeds
The Get feeds endpoint lists all the feeds available to the authenticated user. You can then get a feed by sending a request to one of the feed URLs.
By default, timeline resources are returned in JSON. You can specify the application/atom+xml
type in the Accept
header to return timeline resources in Atom format.
Example request
To get the feed for GitHub security advisories in Atom format:
curl -H "Accept: application/atom+xml" https://github.com/security-advisories
Example 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">
<p>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 "Object" via
<strong>proto</strong>, causing the
addition or modification of an existing property
that will exist on all objects.</p>
<p><strong>Affected Packages</strong></p>
<dl>
<dt>Octoapp</dt>
<dd>Ecosystem: npm</dd>
<dd>Severity: moderate</dd>
<dd>Versions: &lt; 4.17.5</dd>
<dd>Fixed in: 4.17.5</dd>
</dl>
<p><strong>References</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-123</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
Get feeds
Works with GitHub Apps
GitHub provides several timeline resources in Atom format. The Feeds API lists all the feeds available to the authenticated user:
- Timeline: The GitHub 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.
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 for "Get feeds"
Status code | Description |
---|---|
200 | OK |
Code samples for "Get feeds"
get/feeds
curl -L \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>"\
-H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
https://api.github.com/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"
}
],
"security_advisories": {
"href": "https://github.com/security-advisories",
"type": "application/atom+xml"
}
}
}