REST API endpoints for external groups - GitHub Enterprise Server 3.20 Docs

About external groups

To use these endpoints, the authenticated user must be a team maintainer or an owner of the organization associated with the team.

Get an external group

Displays information about the specific group's usage. Provides a list of the group's external members as well as a list of teams that this group is connected to.

You can manage team membership with your identity provider using Enterprise Managed Users for GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see "GitHub's products" in the GitHub Help documentation.

Fine-grained access tokens for "Get an external group"

This endpoint works with the following fine-grained token types:

The fine-grained token must have the following permission set:

"Members" organization permissions (write)

Parameters for "Get an external group"

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept` string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org` string Required The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
`group_id` integer Required The unique identifier of the group.

Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`per_page` integer The number of results per page for the "members" array (max 100). For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API." Default: `30`
`page` integer The page number of the "members" array results to fetch. For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API." Default: `1`

HTTP response status codes for "Get an external group"

Status code	Description
`200`	OK

Code samples for "Get an external group"

Request example

get/orgs/{org}/external-group/{group_id}

curl -L \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/orgs/ORG/external-group/GROUP_ID

Response

Status: 200

{
  "group_id": "123",
  "group_name": "Octocat admins",
  "updated_at": "2021-01-24T11:31:04-06:00",
  "teams": [
    {
      "team_id": 1,
      "team_name": "team-test"
    },
    {
      "team_id": 2,
      "team_name": "team-test2"
    }
  ],
  "members": [
    {
      "member_id": 1,
      "member_login": "mona-lisa_eocsaxrs",
      "member_name": "Mona Lisa",
      "member_email": "mona_lisa@github.com"
    },
    {
      "member_id": 2,
      "member_login": "octo-lisa_eocsaxrs",
      "member_name": "Octo Lisa",
      "member_email": "octo_lisa@github.com"
    }
  ]
}