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You can use the REST API to build GitHub Apps that run powerful checks against code changes in a repository. You can create apps that perform continuous integration, code linting, or code scanning services and provide detailed feedback on commits.
- Quickstart
GitHub CLI is the easiest way to use the GitHub REST API...
- About GitHub's APIs
GitHub provides two APIs: a REST API and a GraphQL API. You...
- Resources in the REST API
This article describes how to use the GitHub REST API with...
- API Versions
About API versioning. The GitHub REST API is versioned. The...
- Authenticating
For an overview of which REST API endpoints a GitHub App can...
- Keeping API credentials secure
If you're creating a GitHub Actions workflow that needs to...
- Troubleshooting
Rate limit errors. GitHub enforces rate limits to ensure...
- Libraries
GitHub maintains official Octokit libraries for some...
- Quickstart
Use the REST API to get public and private information about authenticated users.
This article describes how to use the GitHub REST API with GitHub CLI, curl, or JavaScript. For a quickstart guide, see " Quickstart for GitHub REST API." About requests to the REST API. This section describes the elements that make up an API request: HTTP method. Path. Headers. Media types. Authentication. Parameters.
11 sty 2023 · Github API can be used to programmatically interact with GitHub. It gives you access to publicly available user-generated information (like public repositories, user profiles, etc.) and with an authenticated access token can even grant access to private information (my guess though, is that if you are here, you already knew all that).
10 sty 2020 · Using the JavaScript Octokit. Authenticating using a personal access token is straight forward, so it's already built into https://github.com/octokit/core.js and all libraries that are built upon it. Sending the above request would look like this in the browser.
Learn how to access and use the GitHub REST API to interact with your repositories, issues, users, and more.
12 sie 2019 · UPDATE: per this blog post, they've deprecated the OAuth Authorizations API, that support generating personal access tokens. so now, you'll have to generate it using the web settings page instead. Original answer: Calls to OAuth Authorizations API.