Using the REST API

Learn how to use the GitHub REST API.

Learn about REST API rate limits, how to avoid exceeding them, and what to do if you do exceed them.

Learn how to navigate through paginated responses from the REST API.

You can use the official Octokit libraries and other third-party libraries to extend and simplify how you use the GitHub API.

Follow these best practices when using GitHub's API.

Learn how to diagnose and resolve common problems for the REST API.

Some REST API endpoints allow you to specify timezone information with your request.

You can make API requests across domains using cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) and JSONP callbacks.

For the REST APIs for issue events and timeline events, learn about each event type, the triggering action on GitHub, and each event's unique properties.

For the GitHub Events API, learn about each event type, the triggering action on GitHub, and each event's unique properties.