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Reactions

Use the REST API to interact with reactions on GitHub.

About reactions

You can create and manage reactions to comments, issues, pull requests, and discussions on GitHub. When creating a reaction, the allowed values for the content parameter are as follows (with the corresponding emoji for reference):

content emoji
+1 👍
-1 👎
laugh 😄
confused 😕
heart ❤️
hooray 🎉
rocket 🚀
eyes 👀

List reactions for a team discussion comment

Works with GitHub Apps

List the reactions to a team discussion comment. OAuth access tokens require the read:discussion scope.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route GET /organizations/:org_id/team/:team_id/discussions/:discussion_number/comments/:comment_number/reactions.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
orgstringRequired

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

team_slugstringRequired

The slug of the team name.

discussion_numberintegerRequired

The number that identifies the discussion.

comment_numberintegerRequired

The number that identifies the comment.

Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
contentstring

Returns a single reaction type. Omit this parameter to list all reactions to a team discussion comment.

Can be one of: +1, -1, laugh, confused, heart, hooray, rocket, eyes

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

OK

Code samples

get/orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}/discussions/{discussion_number}/comments/{comment_number}/reactions
curl \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/orgs/ORG/teams/TEAM_SLUG/discussions/DISCUSSION_NUMBER/comments/COMMENT_NUMBER/reactions

Response

Status: 200
[ { "id": 1, "node_id": "MDg6UmVhY3Rpb24x", "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 }, "content": "heart", "created_at": "2016-05-20T20:09:31Z" } ]

Create reaction for a team discussion comment

Works with GitHub Apps

Create a reaction to a team discussion comment. OAuth access tokens require the write:discussion scope. A response with an HTTP 200 status means that you already added the reaction type to this team discussion comment.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route POST /organizations/:org_id/team/:team_id/discussions/:discussion_number/comments/:comment_number/reactions.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
orgstringRequired

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

team_slugstringRequired

The slug of the team name.

discussion_numberintegerRequired

The number that identifies the discussion.

comment_numberintegerRequired

The number that identifies the comment.

Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
contentstringRequired

The reaction type to add to the team discussion comment.

Can be one of: +1, -1, laugh, confused, heart, hooray, rocket, eyes

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

Response when the reaction type has already been added to this team discussion comment

201

Created

Code samples

post/orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}/discussions/{discussion_number}/comments/{comment_number}/reactions
curl \ -X POST \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/orgs/ORG/teams/TEAM_SLUG/discussions/DISCUSSION_NUMBER/comments/COMMENT_NUMBER/reactions \ -d '{"content":"heart"}'

Response when the reaction type has already been added to this team discussion comment

Status: 200
{ "id": 1, "node_id": "MDg6UmVhY3Rpb24x", "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 }, "content": "heart", "created_at": "2016-05-20T20:09:31Z" }

Delete team discussion comment reaction

Works with GitHub Apps

Note: You can also specify a team or organization with team_id and org_id using the route DELETE /organizations/:org_id/team/:team_id/discussions/:discussion_number/comments/:comment_number/reactions/:reaction_id.

Delete a reaction to a team discussion comment. OAuth access tokens require the write:discussion scope.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

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

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
orgstringRequired

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

team_slugstringRequired

The slug of the team name.