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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."

Meta

Use the REST API to get meta information about GitHub Enterprise Server, including the IP addresses of GitHub Enterprise Server services.

GitHub API Root

Works with GitHub Apps

Get Hypermedia links to resources accessible in GitHub's REST API

HTTP response status codes for "GitHub API Root"

Status codeDescription
200

OK

Code samples for "GitHub API Root"

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

Response

Status: 200
{ "current_user_url": "https://HOSTNAME/user", "current_user_authorizations_html_url": "https://github.com/settings/connections/applications{/client_id}", "authorizations_url": "https://HOSTNAME/authorizations", "code_search_url": "https://HOSTNAME/search/code?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}", "commit_search_url": "https://HOSTNAME/search/commits?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}", "emails_url": "https://HOSTNAME/user/emails", "emojis_url": "https://HOSTNAME/emojis", "events_url": "https://HOSTNAME/events", "feeds_url": "https://HOSTNAME/feeds", "followers_url": "https://HOSTNAME/user/followers", "following_url": "https://HOSTNAME/user/following{/target}", "gists_url": "https://HOSTNAME/gists{/gist_id}", "hub_url": "https://HOSTNAME/hub", "issue_search_url": "https://HOSTNAME/search/issues?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}", "issues_url": "https://HOSTNAME/issues", "keys_url": "https://HOSTNAME/user/keys", "label_search_url": "https://HOSTNAME/search/labels?q={query}&repository_id={repository_id}{&page,per_page}", "notifications_url": "https://HOSTNAME/notifications", "organization_url": "https://HOSTNAME/orgs/{org}", "organization_repositories_url": "https://HOSTNAME/orgs/{org}/repos{?type,page,per_page,sort}", "organization_teams_url": "https://HOSTNAME/orgs/{org}/teams", "public_gists_url": "https://HOSTNAME/gists/public", "rate_limit_url": "https://HOSTNAME/rate_limit", "repository_url": "https://HOSTNAME/repos/{owner}/{repo}", "repository_search_url": "https://HOSTNAME/search/repositories?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}", "current_user_repositories_url": "https://HOSTNAME/user/repos{?type,page,per_page,sort}", "starred_url": "https://HOSTNAME/user/starred{/owner}{/repo}", "starred_gists_url": "https://HOSTNAME/gists/starred", "topic_search_url": "https://HOSTNAME/search/topics?q={query}{&page,per_page}", "user_url": "https://HOSTNAME/users/{user}", "user_organizations_url": "https://HOSTNAME/user/orgs", "user_repositories_url": "https://HOSTNAME/users/{user}/repos{?type,page,per_page,sort}", "user_search_url": "https://HOSTNAME/search/users?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}" }

Get GitHub Enterprise Server meta information

Works with GitHub Apps

Code samples for "Get GitHub Enterprise Server meta information"

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

Response

Status: 200
{ "verifiable_password_authentication": true, "packages": [ "192.0.2.1" ], "dependabot": [ "192.0.2.1" ], "domains": { "website": [ "*.example.com" ], "codespaces": [ "*.example.com" ], "copilot": [ "*.example.com" ], "packages": [ "*.example.com" ] }, "installed_version": "3.5.0" }

Get Octocat

Works with GitHub Apps

Get the octocat as ASCII art

Parameters for "Get Octocat"

Headers
Name, Type, Description
accept string

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

Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
s string

The words to show in Octocat's speech bubble

HTTP response status codes for "Get Octocat"

Status codeDescription
200

OK

Code samples for "Get Octocat"

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

Response

Status: 200
" MMM. .MMM\n MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM\n MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ___________________________________\n MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM | |\n MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM | Avoid administrative distraction. |\n MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM |_ _______________________________|\n MMMM::- -:::::::- -::MMMM |/\n MM~:~ 00~:::::~ 00~:~MM\n .. MMMMM::.00:::+:::.00::MMMMM ..\n .MM::::: ._. :::::MM.\n MMMM;:::::;MMMM\n -MM MMMMMMM\n ^ M+ MMMMMMMMM\n MMMMMMM MM MM MM\n MM MM MM MM\n MM MM MM MM\n .~~MM~MM~MM~MM~~.\n ~~~~MM:~MM~~~MM~:MM~~~~\n ~~~~~~==~==~~~==~==~~~~~~\n ~~~~~~==~==~==~==~~~~~~\n :~==~==~==~==~~\n"

Get the Zen of GitHub

Works with GitHub Apps

Get a random sentence from the Zen of GitHub

HTTP response status codes for "Get the Zen of GitHub"

Status codeDescription
200

OK

Code samples for "Get the Zen of GitHub"

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

Example response

Status: 200
"Responsive is better than fast"