Blobs

• Get a Blob
• Create a Blob
• Custom media types

Blobs leverage these custom media types. You can read more about the use of media types in the API here.

Get a Blob

GET /repos/:owner/:repo/git/blobs/:sha

The content in the response will always be Base64 encoded.

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

Response

Status: 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999

{
  "content": "Q29udGVudCBvZiB0aGUgYmxvYg==\n",
  "encoding": "base64",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/git/blobs/3a0f86fb8db8eea7ccbb9a95f325ddbedfb25e15",
  "sha": "3a0f86fb8db8eea7ccbb9a95f325ddbedfb25e15",
  "size": 19
}

Create a Blob

POST /repos/:owner/:repo/git/blobs

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".

Example Input

{
  "content": "Content of the blob",
  "encoding": "utf-8"
}

Response

Status: 201 Created
Location: https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/git/blobs/3a0f86fb8db8eea7ccbb9a95f325ddbedfb25e15
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999

{
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/git/blobs/3a0f86fb8db8eea7ccbb9a95f325ddbedfb25e15",
  "sha": "3a0f86fb8db8eea7ccbb9a95f325ddbedfb25e15"
}

Custom media types

These are the supported media types for blobs. You can read more about the use of media types in the API here.

application/json
application/vnd.github.VERSION.raw