# GitHub **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/github/ **APIs profiled:** 350 The GitHub REST API allows developers to programmatically interact with GitHub resources including repositories, users, organizations, pull requests, issues, and more. ## Kin Score — 62.6 / 100 (strong) Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 62.6). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 66.7 | | Contract Quality | 81.7 | | Governance | 11.4 | | Contract Governance | 11.4 | | Operational Transparency | 68.4 | | Developer Ergonomics | 76.2 | | Commercial Clarity | 50.0 | | Access Clarity | 50.0 | ## Agent readiness — 59.7 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | Reversibility Documented | verified | | MCP Server | documented | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | verified | | Event Surface Described | derived | | Agent Skills | yes | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high). ## APIs (350) - **GitHub Events API** — 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... - **GitHub Feeds API** — GitHubs Feeds API lets you programmatically discover the Atom feed URLs for GitHub activity thats relevant to you, such as the global timeline, a specific users activity, the au... - **GitHub Gists API** — The GitHub Gists API lets you programmatically manage gistslightweight code snippets and notesover HTTP. You can create gists (public or secret/unlisted), read individual gists,... - **GitHub Issues API** — The GitHub Issues API lets you programmatically manage issue tracking on GitHub, enabling you to list and filter issues across repositories, create and edit issues, change their... - **GitHub Licenses API** — The GitHub Licenses API lets you programmatically discover and retrieve open source license information across GitHub. It provides endpoints to list the common licenses GitHub s... - **GitHub Markdown API** — The GitHub Markdown API is a REST service that converts Markdownespecially GitHub Flavored Markdowninto the same HTML GitHub renders in READMEs, issues, and pull requests, so ex... - **GitHub Meta API** — Use the REST API to get meta information about GitHub, including the IP addresses of GitHub services. - **GitHub Notifications API** — This GitHub REST API allows you to programmatically manage your GitHub notifications, which include updates on issues, pull requests, and commits. The API requires authenticatio... - **GitHub Octocat API** — The GitHub Octocat API is a playful, non-functional endpoint in GitHubs REST API that returns an ASCII-art rendering of the Octocat mascot as plain text. Its primarily meant for... - **GitHub Projects API** — The GitHub Projects API enables developers to programmatically create and manage GitHub Projects, which are flexible tools for planning and tracking work using customizable boar... - **GitHub Repos API** — The GitHub Repos API is a set of REST endpoints that let you programmatically create, read, update, and delete repositories and their resources, giving you control over a repos ... - **GitHub Search API** — The GitHub Search API lets you programmatically find and filter content across GitHubincluding repositories, code, issues and pull requests, commits, users, topics, and labelsus... - **GitHub User API** — The GitHub Users API (part of the REST API) lets applications read and, for the authenticated account, manage user-related data on GitHub. It can fetch public profiles for any u... - **GitHub Checks API** — The GitHub Checks API lets you create and manage check runs and check suites that report detailed status, annotations, and results for commits. It enables CI/CD tools and integr... - **GitHub Deployments API** — The GitHub Deployments API lets you create and manage deployments and deployment statuses for repositories. Deployments are requests to deploy a specific ref (branch, SHA, tag) ... - **GitHub Releases API** — The GitHub Releases API lets you create, edit, and delete releases for a repository, as well as upload and manage release assets (binaries, installers, archives). Releases are b... - **GitHub Pages API** — The GitHub Pages API lets you manage GitHub Pages sites for repositories, including creating, updating, and deleting sites, configuring custom domains and HTTPS enforcement, and... - **GitHub Packages API** — The GitHub Packages API lets you manage packages and package versions in GitHub Packages, a software package hosting service that supports npm, Maven, Gradle, RubyGems, NuGet, D... - **GitHub Git Database API** — The GitHub Git Database API provides low-level access to Git objects (blobs, commits, refs, tags, and trees) in a repository. It lets you read and write raw Git data directly, e... - **GitHub Codespaces API** — The GitHub Codespaces API lets you create, manage, start, stop, and delete cloud development environments (codespaces) for repositories. It provides endpoints for managing codes... - **GitHub Copilot API** — The GitHub Copilot API lets organization and enterprise owners manage GitHub Copilot seat assignments, retrieve usage metrics and billing information, and configure Copilot poli... - **GitHub Billing API** — The GitHub Billing API lets you view billing and usage information for organizations and enterprises, including Actions minutes, Packages storage and data transfer, Codespaces u... - **GitHub Migrations API** — The GitHub Migrations API lets you migrate data to and from GitHub. It supports organization migrations that export repositories and metadata as downloadable archives, source im... - **GitHub Secret Scanning API** — The GitHub Secret Scanning API lets you retrieve and manage secret scanning alerts for repositories, organizations, and enterprises. Secret scanning detects tokens, keys, and ot... - **GitHub Security Advisories API** — The GitHub Security Advisories API lets you view and manage security advisories for repositories and access the GitHub Advisory Database. It provides endpoints to create, update... - **GitHub Commits API** — The GitHub Commits API lets you list, retrieve, and compare commits in a repository, as well as manage commit comments and commit statuses. It provides endpoints for viewing com... - **GitHub Reactions API** — The GitHub Reactions API lets you create, list, and delete emoji reactions on issues, pull requests, issue comments, pull request review comments, commit comments, release asset... - **GitHub Deploy Keys API** — The GitHub Deploy Keys API lets you manage deploy keys for repositories. Deploy keys are SSH keys that grant read-only or read-write access to a single repository, commonly used... - **GitHub Dependency Graph API** — The GitHub Dependency Graph API lets you view and submit dependency information for a repository. It provides endpoints to export the software bill of materials (SBOM) for a rep... - **GitHub Metrics API** — The GitHub Metrics API lets you access community profile and repository statistics, including contributor activity, commit frequency, code frequency, participation data, punch c... - **GitHub Interactions API** — The GitHub Interactions API lets you temporarily restrict which users can comment, open issues, or create pull requests in public repositories. It supports setting interaction l... - **GitHub Models API** — The GitHub Models API provides access to the GitHub Models catalog, letting you list and retrieve details about AI models available on the GitHub platform. It supports browsing ... - **GitHub GraphQL API** — The GitHub GraphQL API provides a flexible query language for accessing GitHub data, allowing clients to request exactly the fields they need in a single request. It supports qu... - **GitHub Campaigns API** — The GitHub Campaigns API lets organization owners and security managers create and manage security campaigns that coordinate remediation of code scanning alerts across multiple ... - **GitHub Classroom API** — The GitHub Classroom API lets you programmatically interact with GitHub Classroom, providing endpoints to list classrooms, get classroom details, list assignments for a classroo... - **GitHub Code Security API** — The GitHub Code Security API lets organizations and enterprises create and manage reusable code security configurations that standardize security settings across repositories. I... - **GitHub Credentials API** — The GitHub Credentials API lets you programmatically manage authentication credentials, providing endpoints to revoke a list of credentials such as tokens and keys for security ... - **GitHub Enterprise Teams API** — The GitHub Enterprise Teams API lets enterprise owners create and manage enterprise-level teams. It provides endpoints to list, create, get, update, and delete teams, manage tea... - **GitHub Private Registries API** — The GitHub Private Registries API lets organizations configure and manage private package registries. It provides endpoints to list, create, get, update, and delete private regi... - **GitHub Starring API** — The GitHub Starring API lets you bookmark repositories and manage your starred list. It provides endpoints to list stargazers for a repository, list repositories starred by the ... - …and 310 more, listed in full on the page. ## MCP servers (1) - **MCP Server** — GitHub's official MCP server connects AI tools to repositories, issues, pull requests, Actions, and code security; remote OAuth endpoint plus a local Docker image, with modular ... ## Agentic access (1) - **Github Agentic Access** — 2431 operations · 1203 acting · 31 human-in-the-loop ## Security (1) - **Github Authentication** — http · 1 scheme ## Plans (1) - **Github Plans Pricing** ## Use cases (8) - **CI/CD Automation** — Automate build, test, and deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions API. - **Repository Management** — Programmatically create, configure, and manage repositories and branches. - **Issue and Project Tracking** — Create, update, and query issues, labels, milestones, and project boards. - **Code Review Automation** — Automate pull request reviews, checks, and merge workflows. - **Security Scanning** — Access Dependabot alerts, code scanning results, and secret scanning alerts. - **Developer Tools** — Build GitHub Apps, CLI extensions, and IDE integrations. - **Organization Management** — Manage teams, members, permissions, and audit logs for organizations. - **Package Publishing** — Publish and manage packages across multiple package registries. ## Tags Code, Pipelines, Platform, Software Development, Source Control, T1 --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/github/). 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