Create a discussion

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Creates a new discussion post on a team's page. OAuth access tokens require the write:discussion scope.

This endpoint triggers notifications. Creating content too quickly using this endpoint may result in abuse rate limiting. See "Abuse rate limits" and "Dealing with abuse rate limits" for details.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route POST /organizations/:org_id/team/:team_id/discussions.

POST /orgs/:org/teams/:team_slug/discussions

Parameters

Name Type Description
title string Required. The discussion post's title.
body string Required. The discussion post's body text.
private boolean Private posts are only visible to team members, organization owners, and team maintainers. Public posts are visible to all members of the organization. Set to true to create a private post.
Default: false

Example

{
  "title": "Our first team post",
  "body": "Hi! This is an area for us to collaborate as a team."
}

Response

Status: 201 Created

{
  "author": {
    "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
  },
  "body": "Hi! This is an area for us to collaborate as a team.",
  "body_html": "<p>Hi! This is an area for us to collaborate as a team</p>",
  "body_version": "0d495416a700fb06133c612575d92bfb",
  "comments_count": 0,
  "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/2343027/discussions/1/comments",
  "created_at": "2018-01-25T18:56:31Z",
  "last_edited_at": null,
  "html_url": "https://github.com/orgs/github/teams/justice-league/discussions/1",
  "node_id": "MDE0OlRlYW1EaXNjdXNzaW9uMQ==",
  "number": 1,
  "pinned": false,
  "private": false,
  "team_url": "https://api.github.com/teams/2343027",
  "title": "Our first team post",
  "updated_at": "2018-01-25T18:56:31Z",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/2343027/discussions/1",
  "reactions": {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/2343027/discussions/1/reactions",
    "total_count": 5,
    "+1": 3,
    "-1": 1,
    "laugh": 0,
    "confused": 0,
    "heart": 1,
    "hooray": 0
  }
}