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Pull request reviews

Use the REST API to interact with pull request reviews.

About pull request reviews

Pull Request Reviews are groups of pull request review comments on a pull request, grouped together with a state and optional body comment.

Custom media types

These are the supported media types for this set of endpoints:

application/vnd.github.raw+json
application/vnd.github.text+json
application/vnd.github.html+json
application/vnd.github.full+json

For more information about media types, see "Custom media types."

List reviews for a pull request

Works with GitHub Apps

The list of reviews returns in chronological order.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
ownerstringRequired

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

repostringRequired

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

pull_numberintegerRequired

The number that identifies the pull request.

Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
per_pageinteger

The number of results per page (max 100).

Default: 30

pageinteger

Page number of the results to fetch.

Default: 1

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

The list of reviews returns in chronological order.

Code samples

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{pull_number}/reviews
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/repos/OWNER/REPO/pulls/PULL_NUMBER/reviews

The list of reviews returns in chronological order.

Status: 200
[ { "id": 80, "node_id": "MDE3OlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0UmV2aWV3ODA=", "user": { "login": "octocat", "id": 1, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=", "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat", "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat", "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers", "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}", "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}", "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}", "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions", "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs", "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos", "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events", "type": "User", "site_admin": false }, "body": "Here is the body for the review.", "state": "APPROVED", "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/12#pullrequestreview-80", "pull_request_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/12", "_links": { "html": { "href": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/12#pullrequestreview-80" }, "pull_request": { "href": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/12" } }, "submitted_at": "2019-11-17T17:43:43Z", "commit_id": "ecdd80bb57125d7ba9641ffaa4d7d2c19d3f3091", "author_association": "COLLABORATOR" } ]

Create a review for a pull request

Works with GitHub Apps

This endpoint triggers notifications. Creating content too quickly using this endpoint may result in secondary rate limiting. See "Secondary rate limits" and "Dealing with secondary rate limits" for details.

Pull request reviews created in the PENDING state are not submitted and therefore do not include the submitted_at property in the response. To create a pending review for a pull request, leave the event parameter blank. For more information about submitting a PENDING review, see "Submit a review for a pull request."

Note: To comment on a specific line in a file, you need to first determine the position of that line in the diff. The GitHub REST API offers the application/vnd.github.v3.diff media type. To see a pull request diff, add this media type to the Accept header of a call to the single pull request endpoint.

The position value equals the number of lines down from the first "@@" hunk header in the file you want to add a comment. The line just below the "@@" line is position 1, the next line is position 2, and so on. The position in the diff continues to increase through lines of whitespace and additional hunks until the beginning of a new file.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
ownerstringRequired

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

repostringRequired

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

pull_number