Teams

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Interact with GitHub Teams.

Get an external group
get /orgs/{org}/external-group/{group_id}

Displays information about the specific group's usage. Provides a list of the group's external members as well as a list of teams that this group is connected to.

You can manage team membership with your identity provider using Enterprise Managed Users for GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see "GitHub's products" in the GitHub Help documentation.

org

string

required

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

group_id

int

required

The unique identifier of the group.

Response

ExamplesSchema

Response

{
  "group_id": "123",
  "group_name": "Octocat admins",
  "updated_at": "2021-01-24T11:31:04-06:00",
  "teams": [
    {
      "team_id": 1,
      "team_name": "team-test"
    },
    {
      "team_id": 2,
      "team_name": "team-test2"
    }
  ],
  "members": [
    {
      "member_id": 1,
      "member_login": "mona-lisa_eocsaxrs",
      "member_name": "Mona Lisa",
      "member_email": "mona_lisa@github.com"
    },
    {
      "member_id": 2,
      "member_login": "octo-lisa_eocsaxrs",
      "member_name": "Octo Lisa",
      "member_email": "octo_lisa@github.com"
    }
  ]
}

List external groups in an organization
get /orgs/{org}/external-groups

Lists external groups available in an organization. You can query the groups using the display_name parameter, only groups with a group_name containing the text provided in the display_name parameter will be returned. You can also limit your page results using the per_page parameter. GitHub Enterprise Server generates a url-encoded page token using a cursor value for where the next page begins. For more information on cursor pagination, see "Offset and Cursor Pagination explained."

You can manage team membership with your identity provider using Enterprise Managed Users for GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see "GitHub's products" in the GitHub Help documentation.

per_page

int

The number of results per page (max 100).

Default
30

page

int

Page token

display_name

string

Limits the list to groups containing the text in the group name

Response

ExamplesSchema

Response

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "group_id": "123",
      "group_name": "Octocat admins",
      "updated_at": "2021-01-24T11:31:04-06:00"
    },
    {
      "group_id": "456",
      "group_name": "Octocat docs members",
      "updated_at": "2021-03-24T11:31:04-06:00"
    }
  ]
}

List teams
get /orgs/{org}/teams

Lists all teams in an organization that are visible to the authenticated user.

per_page

int

The number of results per page (max 100).

Default
30

page

int

Page number of the results to fetch.

Default
1

Response

ExamplesSchema

Response

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDQ6VGVhbTE=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/orgs/github/teams/justice-league",
    "name": "Justice League",
    "slug": "justice-league",
    "description": "A great team.",
    "privacy": "closed",
    "permission": "admin",
    "members_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/members{/member}",
    "repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/repos",
    "parent": null
  }
]

Create a team
post /orgs/{org}/teams

To create a team, the authenticated user must be a member or owner of {org}. By default, organization members can create teams. Organization owners can limit team creation to organization owners. For more information, see "Setting team creation permissions."

When you create a new team, you automatically become a team maintainer without explicitly adding yourself to the optional array of maintainers. For more information, see "About teams".

name

string

required

The name of the team.

description

string

The description of the team.

maintainers

array[string]

List GitHub IDs for organization members who will become team maintainers.

repo_names

array[string]

The full name (e.g., "organization-name/repository-name") of repositories to add the team to.

privacy

string

The level of privacy this team should have. The options are:
For a non-nested team:

  • secret - only visible to organization owners and members of this team.
  • closed - visible to all members of this organization.
    Default: secret
    For a parent or child team:
  • closed - visible to all members of this organization.
    Default for child team: closed
Enum
  • secret
  • closed

permission

string

Deprecated. The permission that new repositories will be added to the team with when none is specified.

Default
"pull"
Enum
  • pull
  • push

parent_team_id

int

The ID of a team to set as the parent team.

ldap_dn

string

The distinguished name (DN) of the LDAP entry to map to a team. LDAP synchronization must be enabled to map LDAP entries to a team. Use the "Update LDAP mapping for a team" endpoint to change the LDAP DN. For more information, see "Using LDAP."

Request

{
  "name": "Justice League",
  "description": "A great team",
  "permission": "push",
  "privacy": "closed"
}

Response

ExamplesSchema

Response

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDQ6VGVhbTE=",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/orgs/github/teams/justice-league",
  "name": "Justice League",
  "slug": "justice-league",
  "description": "A great team.",
  "privacy": "closed",
  "permission": "admin",
  "members_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/members{/member}",
  "repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/repos",
  "members_count": 3,
  "repos_count": 10,
  "created_at": "2017-07-14T16:53:42Z",
  "updated_at": "2017-08-17T12:37:15Z",
  "organization": {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjE=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/events",
    "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/hooks",
    "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/issues",
    "members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/members{/member}",
    "public_members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/public_members{/member}",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "description": "A great organization",
    "name": "github",
    "company": "GitHub",
    "blog": "https://github.com/blog",
    "location": "San Francisco",
    "email": "octocat@github.com",
    "has_organization_projects": true,
    "has_repository_projects": true,
    "public_repos": 2,
    "public_gists": 1,
    "followers": 20,
    "following": 0,
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z",
    "updated_at": "2017-08-17T12:37:15Z",
    "type": "Organization"
  },
  "ldap_dn": "uid=asdf,ou=users,dc=github,dc=com"
}

Get a team by name
get /orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}

Gets a team using the team's slug. To create the slug, GitHub Enterprise Server replaces special characters in the name string, changes all words to lowercase, and replaces spaces with a - separator. For example, "My TEam Näme" would become my-team-name.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route GET /organizations/{org_id}/team/{team_id}.

org

string

required

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

team_slug

string

required

The slug of the team name.

Response

ExamplesSchema

Response

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDQ6VGVhbTE=",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/orgs/github/teams/justice-league",
  "name": "Justice League",
  "slug": "justice-league",
  "description": "A great team.",
  "privacy": "closed",
  "permission": "admin",
  "members_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/members{/member}",
  "repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/repos",
  "members_count": 3,
  "repos_count": 10,
  "created_at": "2017-07-14T16:53:42Z",
  "updated_at": "2017-08-17T12:37:15Z",
  "organization": {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjE=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/events",
    "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/hooks",
    "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/issues",
    "members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/members{/member}",
    "public_members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/public_members{/member}",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "description": "A great organization",
    "name": "github",
    "company": "GitHub",
    "blog": "https://github.com/blog",
    "location": "San Francisco",
    "email": "octocat@github.com",
    "has_organization_projects": true,
    "has_repository_projects": true,
    "public_repos": 2,
    "public_gists": 1,
    "followers": 20,
    "following": 0,
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z",
    "updated_at": "2017-08-17T12:37:15Z",
    "type": "Organization"
  },
  "ldap_dn": "uid=asdf,ou=users,dc=github,dc=com"
}

Delete a team
delete /orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}

To delete a team, the authenticated user must be an organization owner or team maintainer.

If you are an organization owner, deleting a parent team will delete all of its child teams as well.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route DELETE /organizations/{org_id}/team/{team_id}.

org

string

required

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

team_slug

string

required

The slug of the team name.

Response

ExamplesSchema

Response

Empty response

Update a team
patch /orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}

To edit a team, the authenticated user must either be an organization owner or a team maintainer.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route PATCH /organizations/{org_id}/team/{team_id}.

name

string

The name of the team.

description

string

The description of the team.

privacy

string

The level of privacy this team should have. Editing teams without specifying this parameter leaves privacy intact. When a team is nested, the privacy for parent teams cannot be secret. The options are:
For a non-nested team:

  • secret - only visible to organization owners and members of this team.
  • closed - visible to all members of this organization.
    For a parent or child team:
  • closed - visible to all members of this organization.
Enum
  • secret
  • closed

permission

string

Deprecated. The permission that new repositories will be added to the team with when none is specified.

Default
"pull"
Enum
  • pull
  • push
  • admin

parent_team_id

int or null

The ID of a team to set as the parent team.

Request

{
  "name": "new team name",
  "description": "new team description",
  "privacy": "closed"
}

Response

ExamplesSchema

Response when the updated information already exists

{
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDQ6VGVhbTE=",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/orgs/github/teams/justice-league",
  "name": "Justice League",
  "slug": "justice-league",
  "description": "A great team.",
  "privacy": "closed",
  "permission": "admin",
  "members_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/members{/member}",
  "repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/repos",
  "members_count": 3,
  "repos_count": 10,
  "created_at": "2017-07-14T16:53:42Z",
  "updated_at": "2017-08-17T12:37:15Z",
  "organization": {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjE=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/events",
    "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/hooks",
    "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/issues",
    "members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/members{/member}",
    "public_members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/public_members{/member}",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "description": "A great organization",
    "name": "github",
    "company": "GitHub",
    "blog": "https://github.com/blog",
    "location": "San Francisco",
    "email": "octocat@github.com",
    "has_organization_projects": true,
    "has_repository_projects": true,
    "public_repos": 2,
    "public_gists": 1,
    "followers": 20,
    "following": 0,
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z",
    "updated_at": "2017-08-17T12:37:15Z",
    "type": "Organization"
  },
  "ldap_dn": "uid=asdf,ou=users,dc=github,dc=com"
}

List discussions
get /orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}/discussions

List all discussions on a team's page. 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.

direction

string

The direction to sort the results by.

Default
"desc"
Enum
  • asc
  • desc

per_page

int

The number of results per page (max 100).

Default
30

page

int

Page number of the results to fetch.

Default
1

pinned

string

Pinned discussions only filter

Response

ExamplesSchema

Response

[
  {
    "author": {
      "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
    },
    "body": "Hi! This is an area for us to collaborate as a team.",
    "body_html": "<p>Hi! This is an area for us to collaborate as a team</p>",
    "body_version": "0d495416a700fb06133c612575d92bfb",
    "comments_count": 0,
    "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/2343027/discussions/1/comments",
    "created_at": "2018-01-25T18:56:31Z",
    "last_edited_at": null,
    "html_url": "https://github.com/orgs/github/teams/justice-league/discussions/1",
    "node_id": "MDE0OlRlYW1EaXNjdXNzaW9uMQ==",
    "number": 1,
    "pinned": false,
    "private": false,
    "team_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/2343027",
    "title": "Our first team post",
    "updated_at": "2018-01-25T18:56:31Z",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/2343027/discussions/1",
    "reactions": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/2343027/discussions/1/reactions",
      "total_count": 5,
      "+1": 3,
      "-1": 1,
      "laugh": 0,
      "confused": 0,
      "heart": 1,
      "hooray": 0,
      "eyes": 1,
      "rocket": 1
    }
  }
]