# GitHub Events API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/github/github-events-api/  
**Provider:** GitHub — https://apis.io/providers/github/  
**Base URL:** https://api.github.com  
**Documentation:** https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/events?apiVersion=2022-11-28

GitHub Events API is one of 350 APIs that [GitHub](https://apis.io/providers/github/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Event. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

The GitHub Events API provides a read-only feed of recent activity on GitHub, exposing structured event objects you can poll to see what happened across the platform or within a specific repository, organization, or user account. It covers many event typessuch as pushes, pull requests, issues, comments, releases, stars, forks, and membership changeseach with consistent metadata (actor, repo, type, payload, timestamps, IDs).

## Machine-readable artifacts (23)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/openapi/github-events-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/events
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-commit-file-to-new-branch-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-create-label-and-triage-issue-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-create-milestone-and-issue-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-create-org-repository-and-issue-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-create-repository-and-issue-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-dispatch-workflow-and-poll-run-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-fork-and-branch-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-fork-gist-and-comment-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-inspect-latest-commit-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-onboard-org-member-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-open-and-merge-pull-request-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-open-pull-request-and-request-reviewers-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-propose-change-pull-request-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-provision-org-repo-with-webhook-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-publish-release-with-asset-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-report-bug-issue-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-review-and-merge-pull-request-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-star-and-comment-gist-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-tag-commit-and-release-workflow.yml
- **Arazzo** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/arazzo/github-verify-and-merge-branch-workflow.yml

## Other GitHub APIs (12)

- [GitHub Feeds API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-feeds-api/)
- [GitHub Gists API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-gists-api/)
- [GitHub Issues API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-issues-api/)
- [GitHub Licenses API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-licenses-api/)
- [GitHub Markdown API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-markdown-api/)
- [GitHub Meta API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-meta-api/)
- [GitHub Notifications API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-notifications-api/)
- [GitHub Octocat API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-octocat-api/)
- [GitHub Projects API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-projects-api/)
- [GitHub Repos API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-repos-api/)
- [GitHub Search API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-search-api/)
- [GitHub User API](https://apis.io/apis/github/github-user-api/)

## Tags

Event

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