Commit Comments use these custom media types. You can read more about the use of media types in the API here.
Comments are ordered by ascending ID.
GET /repos/:owner/:repo/comments
Status: 200 OK
Link: <https://api.github.com/resource?page=2>; rel="next",
<https://api.github.com/resource?page=5>; rel="last"
[
{
"html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/commit/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e#commitcomment-1",
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/comments/1",
"id": 1,
"node_id": "MDEzOkNvbW1pdENvbW1lbnQx",
"body": "Great stuff",
"path": "file1.txt",
"position": 4,
"line": 14,
"commit_id": "6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
"user": {
"login": "octocat",
"id": 1,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
"avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
"html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false
},
"created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
"updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z"
}
]
An additional reactions object in the commit comment payload is currently available for developers to preview.
During the preview period, the APIs may change without advance notice.
Please see the blog post for full details.
To access the API you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:
application/vnd.github.squirrel-girl-preview
The reactions key will have the following payload where url can be used to construct the API location for listing and creating reactions.
{
"total_count": 5,
"+1": 3,
"-1": 1,
"laugh": 0,
"confused": 0,
"heart": 1,
"hooray": 0,
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/comments/1/reactions"
}