Note: The Checks API is currently available for developers to preview. During the preview period, the API may change without advance notice. Please see the blog post for full details. To access the API during the preview period, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:
application/vnd.github.antiope-preview+json
Warning: The API may change without advance notice during the preview period. Preview features are not supported for production use. If you experience any issues, contact GitHub Support or GitHub Premium Support.
Note: The Checks API only looks for pushes in the repository where the check suite or check run were created. Pushes to a branch in a forked repository are not detected and return an empty pull_requests array.
Gets a single check run using its id. GitHub Apps must have the checks:read permission on a private repository or pull access to a public repository to get check runs. OAuth Apps and authenticated users must have the repo scope to get check runs in a private repository.
GET /repos/:owner/:repo/check-runs/:check_run_id
Status: 200 OK
{
"id": 4,
"head_sha": "ce587453ced02b1526dfb4cb910479d431683101",
"node_id": "MDg6Q2hlY2tSdW40",
"external_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/hello-world/check-runs/4",
"html_url": "http://github.com/github/hello-world/runs/4",
"details_url": "https://example.com",
"status": "completed",
"conclusion": "neutral",
"started_at": "2018-05-04T01:14:52Z",
"completed_at": "2018-05-04T01:14:52Z",
"output": {
"title": "Mighty Readme report",
"summary": "There are 0 failures, 2 warnings, and 1 notice.",
"text": "You may have some misspelled words on lines 2 and 4. You also may want to add a section in your README about how to install your app.",
"annotations_count": 2,
"annotations_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/hello-world/check-runs/4/annotations"
},
"name": "mighty_readme",
"check_suite": {
"id": 5
},
"app": {
"id": 1,
"slug": "octoapp",
"node_id": "MDExOkludGVncmF0aW9uMQ==",
"owner": {
"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": "Octocat App",
"description": "",
"external_url": "https://example.com",
"html_url": "https://github.com/apps/octoapp",
"created_at": "2017-07-08T16:18:44-04:00",
"updated_at": "2017-07-08T16:18:44-04:00",
"permissions": {
"metadata": "read",
"contents": "read",
"issues": "write",
"single_file": "write"
},
"events": [
"push",
"pull_request"
]
},
"pull_requests": [
{
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/hello-world/pulls/1",
"id": 1934,
"number": 3956,
"head": {
"ref": "say-hello",
"sha": "3dca65fa3e8d4b3da3f3d056c59aee1c50f41390",
"repo": {
"id": 526,
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/hello-world",
"name": "hello-world"
}
},
"base": {
"ref": "master",
"sha": "e7fdf7640066d71ad16a86fbcbb9c6a10a18af4f",
"repo": {
"id": 526,
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/hello-world",
"name": "hello-world"
}
}
}
]
}