Organizations

Use the REST API to interact with organizations.

List organizations

Lists all organizations, in the order that they were created on GitHub Enterprise Server.

Note: Pagination is powered exclusively by the since parameter. Use the Link header to get the URL for the next page of organizations.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`since`integer An organization ID. Only return organizations with an ID greater than this ID.
`per_page`integer The number of results per page (max 100). Default: `30`

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`304`	Not modified

Code samples

get/organizations

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

Response

Status: 200

[
  {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjE=",
    "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

Works with GitHub Apps

To see many of the organization response values, you need to be an authenticated organization owner with the admin:org scope. When the value of two_factor_requirement_enabled is true, the organization requires all members, billing managers, and outside collaborators to enable two-factor authentication.

GitHub Apps with the Organization plan permission can use this endpoint to retrieve information about an organization's GitHub Enterprise Server plan. See "Authenticating with GitHub Apps" for details. For an example response, see 'Response with GitHub Enterprise Server plan information' below."

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org`stringRequired The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`404`	Resource not found

Code samples

get/orgs/{org}

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

Default response

Status: 200

{
  "login": "github",
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjE=",
  "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",
  "twitter_username": "github",
  "is_verified": true,
  "has_organization_projects": true,
  "has_repository_projects": true,
  "public_repos": 2,
  "public_gists": 1,
  "followers": 20,
  "following": 0,
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
  "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z",
  "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z",
  "type": "Organization",
  "total_private_repos": 100,
  "owned_private_repos": 100,
  "private_gists": 81,
  "disk_usage": 10000,
  "collaborators": 8,
  "billing_email": "mona@github.com",
  "plan": {
    "name": "Medium",
    "space": 400,
    "private_repos": 20,
    "filled_seats": 4,
    "seats": 5
  },
  "default_repository_permission": "read",
  "members_can_create_repositories": true,
  "two_factor_requirement_enabled": true,
  "members_allowed_repository_creation_type": "all",
  "members_can_create_public_repositories": false,
  "members_can_create_private_repositories": false,
  "members_can_create_internal_repositories": false,
  "members_can_create_pages": true
}

Update an organization

Works with GitHub Apps

Parameter Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will replace and discontinue members_allowed_repository_creation_type in favor of more granular permissions. The new input parameters are members_can_create_public_repositories, members_can_create_private_repositories for all organizations and members_can_create_internal_repositories for organizations associated with an enterprise account using GitHub Enterprise Cloud or GitHub Enterprise Server 2.20+. For more information, see the blog post.

Enables an authenticated organization owner with the admin:org scope to update the organization's profile and member privileges.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org`stringRequired The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
Body parameters
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.
`twitter_username`string The Twitter username of the company.
`location`string The location.
`name`string The shorthand name of the company.
`description`string The description of the company.
`has_organization_projects`boolean Whether an organization can use organization projects.
`has_repository_projects`boolean Whether repositories that belong to the organization can use repository projects.
`default_repository_permission`string Default permission level members have for organization repositories. Default: `read` Can be one of: `read`, `write`, `admin`, `none`
`members_can_create_repositories`boolean Whether of non-admin organization members can create repositories. Note: A parameter can override this parameter. See `members_allowed_repository_creation_type` in this table for details. Default: `true`
`members_can_create_internal_repositories`boolean Whether organization members can create internal repositories, which are visible to all enterprise members. You can only allow members to create internal repositories if your organization is associated with an enterprise account using GitHub Enterprise Cloud or GitHub Enterprise Server 2.20+. For more information, see "Restricting repository creation in your organization" in the GitHub Help documentation.
`members_can_create_private_repositories`boolean Whether organization members can create private repositories, which are visible to organization members with permission. For more information, see "Restricting repository creation in your organization" in the GitHub Help documentation.
`members_can_create_public_repositories`boolean Whether organization members can create public repositories, which are visible to anyone. For more information, see "Restricting repository creation in your organization" in the GitHub Help documentation.
`members_allowed_repository_creation_type`string Specifies which types of repositories non-admin organization members can create. Note: This parameter is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Its return value ignores internal repositories. Using this parameter overrides values set in `members_can_create_repositories`. See the parameter deprecation notice in the operation description for details. Can be one of: `all`, `private`, `none`
`members_can_create_pages`boolean Whether organization members can create GitHub Pages sites. Existing published sites will not be impacted. Default: `true`
`blog`string

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`409`	Conflict
`422`	Validation failed

Code samples

patch/orgs/{org}

curl \
  -X PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/orgs/ORG \
  -d '{"billing_email":"mona@github.com","company":"GitHub","email":"mona@github.com","twitter_username":"github","location":"San Francisco","name":"github","description":"GitHub, the company.","default_repository_permission":"read","members_can_create_repositories":true,"members_allowed_repository_creation_type":"all"}'

Response

Status: 200

{
  "login": "github",
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjE=",
  "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",
  "twitter_username": "github",
  "is_verified": true,
  "has_organization_projects": true,
  "has_repository_projects": true,
  "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": "mona@github.com",
  "plan": {
    "name": "Medium",
    "space": 400,
    "private_repos": 20
  },
  "default_repository_permission": "read",
  "members_can_create_repositories": true,
  "two_factor_requirement_enabled": true,
  "members_allowed_repository_creation_type": "all",
  "members_can_create_public_repositories": false,
  "members_can_create_private_repositories": false,
  "members_can_create_internal_repositories": false,
  "members_can_create_pages": true,
  "members_can_create_public_pages": true,
  "members_can_create_private_pages": true,
  "updated_at": "2014-03-03T18:58:10Z"
}

Get the audit log for an organization

Works with GitHub Apps

Gets the audit log for an organization. For more information, see "Reviewing the audit log for your organization."

To use this endpoint, you must be an organization owner, and you must use an access token with the admin:org scope. GitHub Apps must have the organization_administration read permission to use this endpoint.

By default, the response includes up to 30 events from the past three months. Use the phrase parameter to filter results and retrieve older events. For example, use the phrase parameter with the created qualifier to filter events based on when the events occurred. For more information, see "Reviewing the audit log for your organization."

Use pagination to retrieve fewer or more than 30 events. For more information, see "Resources in the REST API."

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org`stringRequired The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`phrase`string A search phrase. For more information, see Searching the audit log.
`after`string A cursor, as given in the Link header. If specified, the query only searches for events after this cursor.
`before`string A cursor, as given in the Link header. If specified, the query only searches for events before this cursor.
`order`string The order of audit log events. To list newest events first, specify `desc`. To list oldest events first, specify `asc`. The default is `desc`. Can be one of: `desc`, `asc`
`per_page`integer The number of results per page (max 100). Default: `30`
`page`integer Page number of the results to fetch. Default: `1`

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK

Code samples

get/orgs/{org}/audit-log

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

Response

Status: 200

[
  {
    "actor_ip": "88.123.45.123",
    "from": "pull_requests#merge",
    "device_cookie": null,
    "actor": "mona-admin",
    "actor_id": 7,
    "repo": "octo-org/octo-repo",
    "repo_id": 17,
    "business": "github",
    "business_id": 1,
    "org": "octo-org",
    "org_id": 8,
    "action": "pull_request.merge",
    "@timestamp": 1635940599755,
    "created_at": 1635940599755,
    "operation_type": "modify",
    "actor_location": {
      "country_code": "GB",
      "country_name": "United Kingdom",
      "region": "ENG",
      "region_name": "England",
      "city": "Louth",
      "postal_code": "LN11",
      "location": {
        "lat": 53.4457,
        "lon": 0.141
      }
    },
    "data": {
      "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) ...",
      "method": "POST",
      "request_id": "e4dabc4d-ba16-4bca-1234-649be7ae1188",
      "server_id": "5d17aab5-fd9f-abcd-a820-16bed246441b",
      "request_category": "other",
      "controller_action": "merge",
      "url": "https://example.com/octo-org/octo-repo/pull/1/merge",
      "client_id": 322299977.1635936,
      "referrer": "https://example.com/octo-org/octo-repo/pull/1",
      "actor_session": 1,
      "pull_request_id": 1,
      "category_type": "Resource Management"
    }
  },
  {
    "actor_ip": "88.123.45.123",
    "from": "pull_request_review_events#create",
    "device_cookie": null,
    "actor": "mona-admin",
    "actor_id": 7,
    "business_id": 1,
    "org_id": 8,
    "action": "pull_request_review.submit",
    "@timestamp": 1635940593079,
    "created_at": 1635940593079,
    "operation_type": "modify",
    "actor_location": {
      "country_code": "GB",
      "country_name": "United Kingdom",
      "region": "ENG",
      "region_name": "England",
      "city": "Louth",
      "postal_code": "LN11",
      "location": {
        "lat": 53.4457,
        "lon": 0.141
      }
    },
    "data": {
      "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) ...",
      "method": "PUT",
      "request_id": "c0f63bb7-17b6-4796-940c-12345c5a581b",
      "server_id": "2abc1234-f651-43e3-9696-e942ad5f8c89",
      "request_category": "other",
      "controller_action": "create",
      "url": "https://example.com/octo-org/octo-repo/pull/1/reviews",
      "client_id": 322299977.1635936,
      "referrer": "https://example.com/octo-org/octo-repo/pull/1/files",
      "actor_session": 1,
      "spammy": false,
      "pull_request_id": 1,
      "body": null,
      "allowed": true,
      "id": 1,
      "state": 40,
      "issue_id": 1,
      "review_id": 1,
      "category_type": "Resource Management"
    }
  },
  {
    "actor_ip": "88.123.45.123",
    "from": "pull_requests#create",
    "device_cookie": null,
    "actor": "mona",
    "actor_id": 9,
    "user_id": 9,
    "repo": "octo-org/octo-repo",
    "repo_id": 17,
    "business": "github",
    "business_id": 1,
    "org": "octo-org",
    "org_id": 8,
    "action": "pull_request.create",
    "@timestamp": 1635940554161,
    "created_at": 1635940554161,
    "operation_type": "create",
    "actor_location": {
      "country_code": "GB",
      "country_name": "United Kingdom",
      "region": "ENG",
      "region_name": "England",
      "city": "Louth",
      "postal_code": "LN11",
      "location": {
        "lat": 53.4457,
        "lon": 0.141
      }
    },
    "data": {
      "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) ...",
      "method": "POST",
      "request_id": "2773abeb-477f-4ebf-a017-f8e8a206c305",
      "server_id": "796e3115-4ce8-4606-8fd0-99ea57a2e12b",
      "request_category": "other",
      "controller_action": "create",
      "url": "https://example.com/octo-org/octo-repo/pull/create?base=octo-org%3Amain&head=mona%3Apatch-1",
      "client_id": 386351111.163594,
      "referrer": "https://example.com/octo-org/octo-repo/compare/main...mona:patch-1",
      "actor_session": 2,
      "pull_request_id": 1,
      "category_type": "Resource Management"
    }
  }
]

List app installations for an organization

Works with GitHub Apps

Lists all GitHub Apps in an organization. The installation count includes all GitHub Apps installed on repositories in the organization. You must be an organization owner with admin:read scope to use this endpoint.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org`stringRequired The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`per_page`integer The number of results per page (max 100). Default: `30`
`page`integer Page number of the results to fetch. Default: `1`

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK

Code samples

get/orgs/{org}/installations

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

Response

Status: 200

{
  "total_count": 1,
  "installations": [
    {
      "id": 25381,
      "account": {
        "login": "octo-org",
        "id": 6811672,
        "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjY4MTE2NzI=",
        "avatar_url": "https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/6811672?v=4",
        "gravatar_id": "",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octo-org",
        "html_url": "https://github.com/octo-org",
        "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octo-org/followers",
        "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octo-org/following{/other_user}",
        "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octo-org/gists{/gist_id}",
        "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octo-org/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
        "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octo-org/subscriptions",
        "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octo-org/orgs",
        "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octo-org/repos",
        "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octo-org/events{/privacy}",
        "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octo-org/received_events",
        "type": "Organization",
        "site_admin": false
      },
      "repository_selection": "selected",
      "access_tokens_url": "https://api.github.com/app/installations/25381/access_tokens",
      "repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/installation/repositories",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/organizations/octo-org/settings/installations/25381",
      "app_id": 2218,
      "target_id": 6811672,
      "target_type": "Organization",
      "permissions": {
        "deployments": "write",
        "metadata": "read",
        "pull_requests": "read",
        "statuses": "read"
      },
      "events": [
        "deployment",
        "deployment_status"
      ],
      "created_at": "2017-05-16T08:47:09.000-07:00",
      "updated_at": "2017-06-06T11:23:23.000-07:00",
      "single_file_name": "config.yml",
      "has_multiple_single_files": true,
      "single_file_paths": [
        "config.yml",
        ".github/issue_TEMPLATE.md"
      ],
      "app_slug": "github-actions",
      "suspended_at": null,
      "suspended_by": null
    }
  ]
}

List organizations for the authenticated user

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.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`per_page`integer The number of results per page (max 100). Default: `30`
`page`integer Page number of the results to fetch. Default: `1`

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`304`	Not modified
`401`	Requires authentication
`403`	Forbidden

Code samples

get/user/orgs

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

Response

Status: 200

[
  {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjE=",
    "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 organizations for a user

Works with GitHub Apps

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 organizations for the authenticated user API instead.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`username`stringRequired The handle for the GitHub user account.
Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`per_page`integer The number of results per page (max 100). Default: `30`
`page`integer Page number of the results to fetch. Default: `1`

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK

Code samples

get/users/{username}/orgs

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

Response

Status: 200

[
  {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjE=",
    "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"
  }
]