Github rest api download file

Viewed 26 times. Merav Taviv Merav Taviv 1 1 1 bronze badge. New contributor. This is going to be horribly inefficient in the general case. Is there a reason you can't use a Git clone? Yes, I do not want to download the entire repository, only the modified files — Merav Taviv. You are actually better off using a shallow clone, which will likely be smaller than a Baseencoded set of JSON responses, much faster, and won't run into rate limits.

The basic workflow is:. Let me know if you find it useful! RestTemplate ;. Gson ;. GsonBuilder ;. Any other REST client. Any other HTTP. Any other library. RestTemplate - Response OK RestTemplate - Reading to [java. Some sample content for test purpose. RestTemplate - Response OK. RestTemplate - Reading to [ java. Default: false.

Note : You will get a error if the organization restricts changing repository visibility to organization owners and a non-owner tries to change the value of private. Specify which security and analysis features to enable or disable. Use the status property to enable or disable GitHub Advanced Security for this repository.

Use the status property to enable or disable secret scanning for this repository. For more information, see " About secret scanning. Note : You cannot unarchive repositories through the API. Deleting a repository requires admin access. If an organization owner has configured the organization to prevent members from deleting organization-owned repositories, you will get a Forbidden response.

Enables automated security fixes for a repository. The authenticated user must have admin access to the repository. For more information, see " Configuring automated security fixes ". Disables automated security fixes for a repository. Lists contributors to the specified repository and sorts them by the number of commits per contributor in descending order.

GitHub identifies contributors by author email address. This endpoint groups contribution counts by GitHub user, which includes all associated email addresses.

To improve performance, only the first author email addresses in the repository link to GitHub users. The rest will appear as anonymous contributors without associated GitHub user information. This parameter is a JSON payload that will be passed on when the webhook event is dispatched. Lists languages for the specified repository. The value shown for each language is the number of bytes of code written in that language.

An array of topics to add to the repository. Pass one or more topics to replace the set of existing topics. Send an empty array [] to clear all topics from the repository. Note: Topic names cannot contain uppercase letters. A transfer request will need to be accepted by the new owner when transferring a personal repository to another user. The response will contain the original owner , and the transfer will continue asynchronously. For more details on the requirements to transfer personal and organization-owned repositories, see about repository transfers.

The username or organization name the repository will be transferred to. ID of the team or teams to add to the repository. Teams can only be added to organization-owned repositories.

Shows whether dependency alerts are enabled or disabled for a repository. For more information, see " About security alerts for vulnerable dependencies ". Enables dependency alerts and the dependency graph for a repository. Disables dependency alerts and the dependency graph for a repository.

Creates a new repository using a repository template. The authenticated user must own or be a member of an organization that owns the repository. The organization or person who will own the new repository.

To create a new repository in an organization, the authenticated user must be a member of the specified organization. Set to true to include the directory structure and files from all branches in the template repository, and not just the default branch. Either true to create a new private repository or false to create a new public one. Lists repositories that the authenticated user has explicit permission :read , :write , or :admin to access.

The authenticated user has explicit permission to access repositories they own, repositories where they are a collaborator, and repositories that they can access through an organization membership. Can be one of all , public , or private. Comma-separated list of values. This includes every repository on every team that the user is on. Can be one of all , owner , public , private , member.

Will cause a error if used in the same request as visibility or affiliation. Only show notifications updated after the given time. Only show notifications updated before the given time.

Lists public repositories for the specified user. For more information, see " Configuring autolinks to reference external resources. The prefix appended by a number will generate a link any time it is found in an issue, pull request, or commit. Setting to true returns only protected branches. When set to false , only unprotected branches are returned.

Omitting this parameter returns all branches. Note : Passing new arrays of users and teams replaces their previous values. Require status checks to pass before merging. Set to null to disable. The list of status checks to require in order to merge into this branch. If any of these checks have recently been set by a particular GitHub App, they will be required to come from that app in future for the branch to merge.

Use checks instead of contexts for more fine-grained control. Set to null to accept the check from any source. Enforce all configured restrictions for administrators. Set to true to enforce required status checks for repository administrators. Require at least one approving review on a pull request, before merging. Specify which users and teams can dismiss pull request reviews. Omit this parameter for personal repositories.

Set to true if you want to automatically dismiss approving reviews when someone pushes a new commit. Blocks merging pull requests until code owners review them.

Restrict who can push to the protected branch. User, app, and team restrictions are only available for organization-owned repositories. Enforces a linear commit Git history, which prevents anyone from pushing merge commits to a branch. Set to true to enforce a linear commit history. Set to false to disable a linear commit Git history. Your repository must allow squash merging or rebase merging before you can enable a linear commit history.

For more information, see " Requiring a linear commit history " in the GitHub Help documentation. Permits force pushes to the protected branch by anyone with write access to the repository.

Set to true to allow force pushes. Set to false or null to block force pushes. For more information, see " Enabling force pushes to a protected branch " in the GitHub Help documentation.

Allows deletion of the protected branch by anyone with write access to the repository. Set to false to prevent deletion of the protected branch. Requires all conversations on code to be resolved before a pull request can be merged into a branch that matches this rule. Set to false to disable.

Adding admin enforcement requires admin or owner permissions to the repository and branch protection to be enabled. Removing admin enforcement requires admin or owner permissions to the repository and branch protection to be enabled.

Updating pull request review enforcement requires admin or owner permissions to the repository and branch protection to be enabled. Blocks merging pull requests until code owners have reviewed. Specifies the number of reviewers required to approve pull requests.

Use a number between 1 and 6. When authenticated with admin or owner permissions to the repository, you can use this endpoint to check whether a branch requires signed commits. File : "CharSetUtils. Matched line : " specified string. File : "StringUtils. Matched line : " CharSequenceUtils. File : "StringEscapeUtils.

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