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After a site administrator upgrades your Enterprise Server instance to Enterprise Server 3.9 or later, the REST API will be versioned. To learn how to find your instance's version, see "About versions of GitHub Docs". For more information, see "About API versioning."

Custom Repository Roles

Use the REST API to interact with custom repository roles.

List custom repository roles in an organization

Works with GitHub Apps

List the custom repository roles available in this organization. In order to see custom repository roles in an organization, the authenticated user must be an organization owner.

To use this endpoint the authenticated user must be an administrator for the organization or of an repository of the organization and must use an access token with admin:org repo scope. GitHub Apps must have the organization_custom_roles:read organization permission to use this endpoint.

For more information on custom repository roles, see "About custom repository roles."

Parameters for "List custom repository roles in an organization"

Headers
Name, Type, Description
accept string

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
organization_id string Required

The unique identifier of the organization.

HTTP response status codes for "List custom repository roles in an organization"

Status codeDescription
200

Response - list of custom role names

Code samples for "List custom repository roles in an organization"

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

Response - list of custom role names

Status: 200
{ "total_count": 2, "custom_roles": [ { "id": 8030, "name": "Developer" }, { "id": 8031, "name": "Designer" } ] }