Create a label

POST /repos/:owner/:repo/labels

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Required. The name of the label. Emoji can be added to label names, using either native emoji or colon-style markup. For example, typing :strawberry: will render the emoji . For a full list of available emoji and codes, see emoji-cheat-sheet.com.
color	string	Required. The hexadecimal color code for the label, without the leading #.
description	string	A short description of the label.

Example

{
  "name": "bug",
  "description": "Something isn't working",
  "color": "f29513"
}

Response

Status: 201 Created
Location: https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug

{
  "id": 208045946,
  "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/labels/bug",
  "name": "bug",
  "description": "Something isn't working",
  "color": "f29513",
  "default": true
}