Event object common properties

The event objects returned from the Events API endpoints have the same structure.

Event API attribute name	Description
`id`	Unique identifier for the event.
`type`	The type of event. Events uses PascalCase for the name.
`actor`	The user that triggered the event.
`actor.id`	The unique identifier for the actor.
`actor.login`	The username of the actor.
`actor.display_login`	The specific display format of the username.
`actor.gravatar_id`	The unique indentifier of the Gravatar profile for the actor.
`actor.url`	The REST API URL used to retrieve the user object, which includes additional user information.
`actor.avatar_url`	The URL of the actor's profile image.
`repo`	The repository object where the event occurred.
`repo.id`	The unique identifier of the repository.
`repo.name`	The name of the repository, which includes the owner and repository name. For example, `octocat/hello-world` is the name of the `hello-world` repository owned by the `octocat` user account.
`repo.url`	The REST API URL used to retrive the repository object, which includes additional repository information.
`payload`	The event payload object is unique to the event type. See the event type below for the event API `payload` object.

Example WatchEvent event object

This example shows the format of the WatchEvent response when using the Events API.

Status: 200 OK
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      <https://api.github.com/resource?page=5>; rel="last"

[
  {
    "type": "WatchEvent",
    "public": true,
    "payload": {
    },
    "repo": {
      "id": 3,
      "name": "octocat/Hello-World",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World"
    },
    "actor": {
      "id": 1,
      "login": "octocat",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat"
    },
    "org": {
      "id": 1,
      "login": "github",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
      "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif"
    },
    "created_at": "2011-09-06T17:26:27Z",
    "id": "12345"
  }
]