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 state (open/closed), and manage assignees, labels, and milestones. It supports adding, updating, and deleting comments; applying reactions; locking or unlocking conversations; and viewing issue events and timelines for auditing and automation.
GitHub Issues API is one of 384 APIs that GitHub publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Issues. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 47 operations across 29 paths, and defines 54 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.1.4.
Requests are made against a single base URL, {protocol}://{hostname}/api/v3.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
GitHub Issues API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerHttpAuthentication).
bearerHttpAuthentication— Bearer Token
Paths & Operations 47
Across 29 paths, the API surfaces 47 operations — 9 DELETE, 24 GET, 4 PATCH, 8 POST, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 54
The contract defines 54 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are repository (95 properties), issue (34 properties), nullable-issue (34 properties), pull-request-review-comment (29 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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