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">
        &lt;p&gt;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 &quot;Object&quot; via 
        &lt;strong&gt;proto&lt;/strong&gt;, causing the 
        addition or modification of an existing property 
        that will exist on all objects.&lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected Packages&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;dl&gt;
      &lt;dt&gt;Octoapp&lt;/dt&gt;
      &lt;dd&gt;Ecosystem: npm&lt;/dd&gt;
      &lt;dd&gt;Severity: moderate&lt;/dd&gt;
      &lt;dd&gt;Versions: &amp;lt; 4.17.5&lt;/dd&gt;
        &lt;dd&gt;Fixed in: 4.17.5&lt;/dd&gt;
  &lt;/dl&gt;

          &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;References&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

  &lt;ul&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-123&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;/ul&gt;

      </content>
    </entry>
</feed>

Get feeds

Works with GitHub Apps

GitHub Enterprise Server provides several timeline resources in Atom format. The Feeds API lists all the feeds available to the authenticated user:

Timeline: The GitHub Enterprise Server 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 Enterprise Server.

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>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/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"
      }
    ]
  }
}