Secret scanning REST API now surfaces locations
GitHub Advanced Security customers can now use the GitHub REST API to retrieve commit details of secrets detected in private repository scans. Now available on cloud, the new endpoint will…
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REST API preview promotions
We have graduated twenty-three of the twenty-five existing previews that were in our REST API. Previously, REST API consumers needed to pass in a custom media-type via an HTTP accept…
Secret scanning org-level REST API
GitHub Advanced Security customers can now retrieve private repository secret scanning results at the organization level via the GitHub REST API. This new endpoint, in beta, supplements the existing repository-level…
GitHub App user-to-server REST API requests now have read access to public resources
API requests made by a GitHub App on behalf of a user that has authorized the app are known as user-to-server requests. The resources that can be accessed by these…
Audit Log Git events and REST API are generally available
Audit Log Git events REST API and export capabilities are generally available for all GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers. Enterprise and organization owners may call the REST API to view Git…
Compare REST API now supports pagination
The “Compare two commits” REST API, which returns a list of commits reachable from one commit (or branch) but not reachable from another, now supports pagination. It can also now…
REST API Maintainer Fork Collaboration Access Changes
We changed the REST API authorization logic for maintainer fork collaborators to address an improper write access control bug identified by an independent bug bounty researcher. Under certain circumstances, this…
Audit Log Git events and REST API are now in public beta
In December 2020 we announced a limited beta of the new Audit Log Git events and REST API. We have now enabled these features in beta for all GitHub Enterprise…
Audit Log Git events and REST API now available in limited public beta
In GitHub Enterprise Cloud, the Audit Log now includes Git events and has a new REST API. Both are available as a limited public beta. The new Git events will…
OpenAPI Description of REST API
GitHub published a full description of its REST API in OpenAPI 3.0 specification compliant documents. The GitHub OpenAPI description contains more than 600 operations exposed in our API. For visual…
Billing REST API: Actions and Packages public beta
We’ve added new billing REST API endpoints for Actions and Packages. You can monitor your GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages charges and usage for the current billing period for a…
Expanding REST API support for triage and maintain roles
We are expanding support for the triage and maintain roles in the REST API. Users with the triage or maintain role can now use endpoints that reflect what they can…
Create a draft pull request from the REST API
You can now create a draft pull request via the REST API. View the REST API documentation for more information.
New preview header for strict validation in REST API
As previously announced, we will be begin to validate request payloads more strictly in the REST API starting on November 1, 2018. You can opt into the new validations by…
Stricter validation coming soon in the REST API
On November 1, 2018 we will begin to validate request payloads more strictly. Calls that previously returned a 2xx success code, may return a 422 Unprocessable Entity. Learn more
Global node IDs become an official part of REST API v3
The node_id attribute, used to identify GraphQL API objects from the REST API, is now officially supported in the REST API v3 for GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise (versions 2.14 and…
Credential revocation API now supports GitHub OAuth and GitHub app credentials
We’ve extended the Credential revocation API to support additional token types, enabling you to programmatically revoke any exposed credentials found on repositories or elsewhere. This helps you quickly limit the…
Upcoming deprecation of security-related organization API fields
On April 21, 2026, we’re deprecating and removing the following fields from the get an organization and update an organization REST API endpoints: advanced_security_enabled_for_new_repositories dependabot_alerts_enabled_for_new_repositories dependabot_security_updates_enabled_for_new_repositories dependency_graph_enabled_for_new_repositories secret_scanning_enabled_for_new_repositories secret_scanning_push_protection_enabled_for_new_repositories secret_scanning_validity_checks_enabled…
Manage Copilot coding agent repository access via the API
Organization owners who want to manage Copilot coding agent access at scale can now do so programmatically with the new Copilot coding agent management REST APIs, available in public preview.…
Org-level metrics API now includes pull request throughput metric parity
We’re expanding the organization-level Copilot Usage Metrics API to include a broader set of pull request activity, including creation volume, throughput and cycle time. This brings the org-level endpoints to…
Enterprise team support in organization APIs
Organization owners within GitHub Enterprise can now discover and interact with both enterprise teams and organization teams through existing organization API endpoints. Previously, retrieving a complete view of all teams…
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