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Organizations

List your organizations

List organizations for the authenticated user.

OAuth scope requirements

This only lists organizations that your authorization allows you to operate on in some way (e.g., you can list teams with read:org scope, you can publicize your organization membership with user scope, etc.). Therefore, this API requires at least user or read:org scope. OAuth requests with insufficient scope receive a 403 Forbidden response.

GET /user/orgs

Response

Status: 200 OK
Link: <https://api.github.com/resource?page=2>; rel="next",
      <https://api.github.com/resource?page=5>; rel="last"
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999
[
  {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 1,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/events",
    "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/hooks",
    "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/issues",
    "members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/members{/member}",
    "public_members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/public_members{/member}",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "description": "A great organization"
  }
]

List user organizations

List public organization memberships for the specified user.

This method only lists public memberships, regardless of authentication. If you need to fetch all of the organization memberships (public and private) for the authenticated user, use the List your organizations API instead.

GET /users/:username/orgs

Response

Status: 200 OK
Link: <https://api.github.com/resource?page=2>; rel="next",
      <https://api.github.com/resource?page=5>; rel="last"
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999
[
  {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 1,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/events",
    "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/hooks",
    "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/issues",
    "members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/members{/member}",
    "public_members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/public_members{/member}",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "description": "A great organization"
  }
]

Get an organization

GET /orgs/:org

Response

Status: 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999
{
  "login": "github",
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
  "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/repos",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/events",
  "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/hooks",
  "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/issues",
  "members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/members{/member}",
  "public_members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/public_members{/member}",
  "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
  "description": "A great organization",
  "name": "github",
  "company": "GitHub",
  "blog": "https://github.com/blog",
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "email": "octocat@github.com",
  "public_repos": 2,
  "public_gists": 1,
  "followers": 20,
  "following": 0,
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
  "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z",
  "type": "Organization"
}

Edit an organization

PATCH /orgs/:org

Input

Name Type Description
billing_email string Billing email address. This address is not publicized.
company string The company name.
email string The publicly visible email address.
location string The location.
name string The shorthand name of the company.
description string The description of the company.

Example

{
  "billing_email": "support@github.com",
  "blog": "https://github.com/blog",
  "company": "GitHub",
  "email": "support@github.com",
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "name": "github",
  "description": "GitHub, the company."
}

Response

Status: 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999
{
  "login": "github",
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
  "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/repos",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/events",
  "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/hooks",
  "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/issues",
  "members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/members{/member}",
  "public_members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/public_members{/member}",
  "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
  "description": "A great organization",
  "name": "github",
  "company": "GitHub",
  "blog": "https://github.com/blog",
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "email": "octocat@github.com",
  "public_repos": 2,
  "public_gists": 1,
  "followers": 20,
  "following": 0,
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
  "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z",
  "type": "Organization",
  "total_private_repos": 100,
  "owned_private_repos": 100,
  "private_gists": 81,
  "disk_usage": 10000,
  "collaborators": 8,
  "billing_email": "support@github.com",
  "plan": {
    "name": "Medium",
    "space": 400,
    "private_repos": 20
  }
}