The REST API is now versioned. For more information, see "About API versioning."

REST API endpoints for issue comments

Use the REST API to manage comments on issues and pull requests.

About issue and pull request comments

You can use the REST API to create and manage comments on issues and pull requests. Every pull request is an issue, but not every issue is a pull request. For this reason, "shared" actions for both features, like managing assignees, labels, and milestones, are provided within the Issues endpoints. To manage pull request review comments, see REST API endpoints for pull request review comments.

List issue comments for a repository

You can use the REST API to list comments on issues and pull requests for a repository. Every pull request is an issue, but not every issue is a pull request.

By default, issue comments are ordered by ascending ID.

This endpoint supports the following custom media types. For more information, see "Media types."

  • application/vnd.github.raw+json: Returns the raw markdown body. Response will include body. This is the default if you do not pass any specific media type.
  • application/vnd.github.text+json: Returns a text only representation of the markdown body. Response will include body_text.
  • application/vnd.github.html+json: Returns HTML rendered from the body's markdown. Response will include body_html.
  • application/vnd.github.full+json: Returns raw, text, and HTML representations. Response will include body, body_text, and body_html.

Fine-grained access tokens for "List issue comments for a repository"

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

The fine-grained token must have at least one of the following permission sets:

  • "Issues" repository permissions (read)
  • "Pull requests" repository permissions (read)

This endpoint can be used without authentication or the aforementioned permissions if only public resources are requested.

Parameters for "List issue comments for a repository"

Headers
accept string

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

Path parameters
owner string Required

The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.

repo string Required

The name of the repository without the .git extension. The name is not case sensitive.

Query parameters
sort string

The property to sort the results by.

Default: created

Can be one of: created, updated

direction string

Either asc or desc. Ignored without the sort parameter.

Can be one of: asc, desc

since string

Only show results that were last updated after the given time. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ.

per_page integer

The number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

Default: 30

page integer

The page number of the results to fetch. For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

Default: 1

HTTP response status codes for "List issue comments for a repository"

Status codeDescription
200

OK