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Deployment statuses

Use the REST API to manage deployment statuses.

List deployment statuses

Works with GitHub Apps

Users with pull access can view deployment statuses for a deployment:

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
ownerstringRequired

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

repostringRequired

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

deployment_idintegerRequired

deployment_id parameter

Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
per_pageinteger

The number of results per page (max 100).

Default: 30

pageinteger

Page number of the results to fetch.

Default: 1

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

404

Resource not found

Code samples

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/deployments/{deployment_id}/statuses
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/repos/OWNER/REPO/deployments/DEPLOYMENT_ID/statuses

Response

Status: 200
[ { "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/42/statuses/1", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDE2OkRlcGxveW1lbnRTdGF0dXMx", "state": "success", "creator": { "login": "octocat", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=", "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat", "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers", "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}", "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}", "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}", "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions", "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs", "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos", "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events", "type": "User", "site_admin": false }, "description": "Deployment finished successfully.", "environment": "production", "target_url": "https://example.com/deployment/42/output", "created_at": "2012-07-20T01:19:13Z", "updated_at": "2012-07-20T01:19:13Z", "deployment_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/42", "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example", "environment_url": "https://test-branch.lab.acme.com", "log_url": "https://example.com/deployment/42/output" } ]

Create a deployment status

Works with GitHub Apps

Users with push access can create deployment statuses for a given deployment.

GitHub Apps require read & write access to "Deployments" and read-only access to "Repo contents" (for private repos). OAuth Apps require the repo_deployment scope.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
ownerstringRequired

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

repostringRequired

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

deployment_idintegerRequired

deployment_id parameter

Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
statestringRequired

The state of the status. When you set a transient deployment to inactive, the deployment will be shown as destroyed in GitHub.

Can be one of: error, failure, inactive, in_progress, queued, pending, success

target_urlstring

The target URL to associate with this status. This URL should contain output to keep the user updated while the task is running or serve as historical information for what happened in the deployment. Note: It's recommended to use the log_url parameter, which replaces target_url.

Default: ""

log_urlstring

The full URL of the deployment's output. This parameter replaces target_url. We will continue to accept target_url to support legacy uses, but we recommend replacing target_url with log_url. Setting log_url will automatically set target_url to the same value. Default: ""

Default: ""

descriptionstring

A short description of the status. The maximum description length is 140 characters.

Default: ""

environmentstring

Name for the target deployment environment, which can be changed when setting a deploy status. For example, production, staging, or qa.

Can be one of: production, staging, qa

environment_urlstring

Sets the URL for accessing your environment. Default: ""

Default: ""

auto_inactiveboolean

Adds a new inactive status to all prior non-transient, non-production environment deployments with the same repository and environment name as the created status's deployment. An inactive status is only added to deployments that had a success state. Default: true

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
201

Created

422

Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

Code samples

post/repos/{owner}/{repo}/deployments/{deployment_id}/statuses
curl \ -X POST \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/repos/OWNER/REPO/deployments/DEPLOYMENT_ID/statuses \ -d '{"environment":"production","state":"success","log_url":"https://example.com/deployment/42/output","description":"Deployment finished successfully."}'

Response

Status: 201
{ "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/42/statuses/1", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDE2OkRlcGxveW1lbnRTdGF0dXMx", "state": "success", "creator": { "login": "octocat", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=", "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat", "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers", "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}", "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}", "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}", "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions", "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs", "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos", "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events", "type": "User", "site_admin": false }, "description": "Deployment finished successfully.", "environment": "production", "target_url": "https://example.com/deployment/42/output", "created_at": "2012-07-20T01:19:13Z", "updated_at": "2012-07-20T01:19:13Z", "deployment_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/42", "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example", "environment_url": "https://test-branch.lab.acme.com", "log_url": "https://example.com/deployment/42/output" }

Get a deployment status

Works with GitHub Apps

Users with pull access can view a deployment status for a deployment:

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
ownerstringRequired

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

repostringRequired

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

deployment_idintegerRequired

deployment_id parameter

status_idintegerRequired

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

404

Resource not found

Code samples

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/deployments/{deployment_id}/statuses/{status_id}
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/repos/OWNER/REPO/deployments/DEPLOYMENT_ID/statuses/STATUS_ID

Response

Status: 200
{ "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/42/statuses/1", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDE2OkRlcGxveW1lbnRTdGF0dXMx", "state": "success", "creator": { "login": "octocat", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=", "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat", "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers", "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}", "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}", "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}", "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions", "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs", "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos", "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events", "type": "User", "site_admin": false }, "description": "Deployment finished successfully.", "environment": "production", "target_url": "https://example.com/deployment/42/output", "created_at": "2012-07-20T01:19:13Z", "updated_at": "2012-07-20T01:19:13Z", "deployment_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example/deployments/42", "repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/example", "environment_url": "https://test-branch.lab.acme.com", "log_url": "https://example.com/deployment/42/output" }