Issue Comments API

The Issue Comments API supports listing, viewing, editing, and creating comments on issues and pull requests.

Issue Comments use these custom media types. You can read more about the use of media types in the API here.

List comments on an issue

GET /repos/:owner/:repo/issues/:number/comments

Response

Status: 200 OK
Link: <https://api.github.com/resource?page=2>; rel="next",
      <https://api.github.com/resource?page=5>; rel="last"
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999
[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments/1",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347#issuecomment-1",
    "body": "Me too",
    "user": {
      "login": "octocat",
      "id": 1,
      "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
      "gravatar_id": "somehexcode",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat"
    },
    "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z"
  }
]

List comments in a repository

GET /repos/:owner/:repo/issues/comments

By default, Issue Comments are ordered by ascending ID.

Parameters

sort
Optional String created or updated
direction
Optional String asc or desc. Ignored without sort parameter.
since
Optional String of a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ

Response

Status: 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999
[
  {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/comments/1",
    "id": 1,
    "body": "Great stuff",
    "path": "file1.txt",
    "position": 4,
    "commit_id": "6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
    "user": {
      "login": "octocat",
      "id": 1,
      "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
      "gravatar_id": "somehexcode",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat"
    },
    "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
    "_links": {
      "self": {
        "href": "https://api.github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/comments/1"
      },
      "html": {
        "href": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1#discussion-diff-1"
      },
      "pull_request": {
        "href": "https://api.github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1"
      }
    }
  }
]

Get a single comment

GET /repos/:owner/:repo/issues/comments/:id

Response

Status: 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999
{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347#issuecomment-1",
  "body": "Me too",
  "user": {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 1,
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "somehexcode",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat"
  },
  "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z"
}

Create a comment

POST /repos/:owner/:repo/issues/:number/comments

Input

body
Required string 
{
  "body": "a new comment"
}

Response

Status: 201 Created
Location: https://api.github.com/repos/user/repo/issues/comments/1
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999
{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347#issuecomment-1",
  "body": "Me too",
  "user": {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 1,
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "somehexcode",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat"
  },
  "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z"
}

Edit a comment

PATCH /repos/:owner/:repo/issues/comments/:id

Input

body
Required string 
{
  "body": "String"
}

Response

Status: 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999
{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/issues/comments/1",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/issues/1347#issuecomment-1",
  "body": "Me too",
  "user": {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 1,
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "somehexcode",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat"
  },
  "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z"
}

Delete a comment

DELETE /repos/:owner/:repo/issues/comments/:id

Response

Status: 204 No Content
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999

Custom media types

These are the supported media types for issue comments. You can read more about the use of media types in the API here.

application/vnd.github.VERSION.raw+json
application/vnd.github.VERSION.text+json
application/vnd.github.VERSION.html+json
application/vnd.github.VERSION.full+json