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REST API

  • Quickstart
    • About the REST API
    • Comparing GitHub's APIs
    • API Versions
    • Breaking changes
    • OpenAPI description
    • Getting started
    • Rate limits
    • Pagination
    • Libraries
    • Best practices
    • Troubleshooting
    • Timezones
    • CORS and JSONP
    • Issue event types
    • GitHub event types
    • Authenticating
    • Keeping API credentials secure
    • Endpoints for GitHub App installation tokens
    • Endpoints for GitHub App user tokens
    • Endpoints for fine-grained PATs
    • Permissions for GitHub Apps
    • Permissions for fine-grained PATs
    • Script with JavaScript
    • Script with Ruby
    • Discover resources for a user
    • Delivering deployments
    • Rendering data as graphs
    • Working with comments
    • Building a CI server
    • Get started - Git database
    • Get started - Checks
    • Encrypt secrets
    • Artifacts
    • Cache
    • OIDC
    • Permissions
    • Secrets
    • Self-hosted runner groups
    • Self-hosted runners
    • Variables
    • Workflow jobs
    • Workflow runs
    • Workflows
    • Events
    • Feeds
    • Notifications
    • Starring
    • Watching
    • Organization
    • GitHub Apps
    • Installations
    • OAuth authorizations
    • Webhooks
    • Billing
    • Branches
      • Get branch protection
      • Update branch protection
      • Delete branch protection
      • Get admin branch protection
      • Set admin branch protection
      • Delete admin branch protection
      • Get pull request review protection
      • Update pull request review protection
      • Delete pull request review protection
      • Get commit signature protection
      • Create commit signature protection
      • Delete commit signature protection
      • Get status checks protection
      • Update status check protection
      • Remove status check protection
      • Get all status check contexts
      • Add status check contexts
      • Set status check contexts
      • Remove status check contexts
      • Get access restrictions
      • Delete access restrictions
      • Get apps with access to the protected branch
      • Add app access restrictions
      • Set app access restrictions
      • Remove app access restrictions
      • Get teams with access to the protected branch
      • Add team access restrictions
      • Set team access restrictions
      • Remove team access restrictions
      • Get users with access to the protected branch
      • Add user access restrictions
      • Set user access restrictions
      • Remove user access restrictions
    • Check runs
    • Check suites
    • Alert dismissal requests
    • Code scanning
    • Configurations
    • Codes of conduct
    • Collaborators
    • Invitations
    • Commits
    • Commit comments
    • Commit statuses
    • Alert dismissal requests
    • Alerts
    • Repository access
    • Secrets
    • Dependency review
    • Dependency submission
    • Software bill of materials (SBOM)
    • Deploy keys
    • Deployment branch policies
    • Deployments
    • Environments
    • Protection rules
    • Deployment statuses
    • Emojis
    • Admin stats
    • Announcement
    • Audit log
    • Bypass requests
    • Security features for code
    • Custom properties
    • Custom properties for organizations
    • Global webhooks
    • LDAP
    • Licensing
    • Live migrations
    • Manage GHES
    • Organization pre-receive hooks
    • GitHub App installations
    • Organizations
    • Pre-receive environments
    • Pre-receive hooks
    • Repository pre-receive hooks
    • Rules
    • SCIM
    • Users
    • Enterprise team members
    • Enterprise team organizations
    • Enterprise teams
    • Gists
    • Comments
    • Blobs
    • Commits
    • References
    • Tags
    • Trees
    • Gitignore
    • Assignees
    • Comments
    • Events
    • Issue dependencies
    • Issue field values
    • Issues
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