Pre-receive Hooks

APIs for managing pre-receive hooks are currently available for developers to preview. During the preview period, the APIs may change without advance notice.

To access the API you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

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The Pre-receive Hooks API allows you to create, list, update and delete pre-receive hooks. It is only available to authenticated site administrators. Normal users will receive a 404 response if they try to access it.

Prefix all the endpoints for this API with the following URL:

http(s)://hostname/api/v3

Object attributes

Pre-receive Hook

Name Type Description
name string The name of the hook.
script string The script that the hook runs.
script_repository object The GitHub repository where the script is kept.
environment object The pre-receive environment where the script is executed.
enforcement string The state of enforcement for this hook.
allow_downstream_configuration boolean Whether enforcement can be overridden at the org or repo level.

Possible values for enforcement are enabled, disabled andtesting. disabled indicates the pre-receive hook will not run. enabled indicates it will run and reject any pushes that result in a non-zero status. testing means the script will run but will not cause any pushes to be rejected.

Get a single pre-receive hook

GET /admin/pre-receive-hooks/:pre_receive_hook_id

Status: 200 OK

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Check Commits",
  "enforcement": "disabled",
  "script": "scripts/commmit_check.sh",
  "script_repository": {
    "id": 595,
    "full_name": "DevIT/hooks",
    "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/repos/DevIT/hooks",
    "html_url": "https://github.example.com/DevIT/hooks"
  },
  "environment": {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "DevTools Hook Env",
    "image_url": "https://my_file_server/path/to/devtools_env.tar.gz",
    "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/admin/pre-receive-environments/2",
    "html_url": "https://github.example.com/admin/pre-receive-environments/2",
    "default_environment": false,
    "created_at": "2016-05-20T11:35:45-05:00",
    "hooks_count": 1,
    "download": {
      "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/admin/pre-receive-environments/2/downloads/latest",
      "state": "success",
      "downloaded_at": "2016-05-26T07:42:53-05:00",
      "message": null
    }
  },
  "allow_downstream_configuration": false
}

List pre-receive hooks

GET /admin/pre-receive-hooks

Status: 200 OK
Link: <https://api.github.com/resource?page=2>; rel="next",
      <https://api.github.com/resource?page=5>; rel="last"

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Check Commits",
    "enforcement": "disabled",
    "script": "scripts/commmit_check.sh",
    "script_repository": {
      "id": 595,
      "full_name": "DevIT/hooks",
      "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/repos/DevIT/hooks",
      "html_url": "https://github.example.com/DevIT/hooks"
    },
    "environment": {
      "id": 2,
      "name": "DevTools Hook Env",
      "image_url": "https://my_file_server/path/to/devtools_env.tar.gz",
      "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/admin/pre-receive-environments/2",
      "html_url": "https://github.example.com/admin/pre-receive-environments/2",
      "default_environment": false,
      "created_at": "2016-05-20T11:35:45-05:00",
      "hooks_count": 1,
      "download": {
        "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/admin/pre-receive-environments/2/downloads/latest",
        "state": "success",
        "downloaded_at": "2016-05-26T07:42:53-05:00",
        "message": null
      }
    },
    "allow_downstream_configuration": false
  }
]

Create a pre-receive hook

POST /admin/pre-receive-hooks

Parameters

Name Type Description
name string Required. The name of the hook.
script string Required. The script that the hook runs.
script_repository object Required. The GitHub repository where the script is kept.
environment object Required. The pre-receive environment where the script is executed.
enforcement string The state of enforcement for this hook. default: disabled
allow_downstream_configuration boolean Whether enforcement can be overridden at the org or repo level. default: false 
{
  "name": "Check Commits",
  "script": "scripts/commit_check.sh",
  "enforcement": "disabled",
  "allow_downstream_configuration": false,
  "script_repository": {
    "full_name": "DevIT/hooks"
  },
  "environment": {
    "id": 2
  }
}

Response

Status: 201 Created

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Check Commits",
  "enforcement": "disabled",
  "script": "scripts/commmit_check.sh",
  "script_repository": {
    "id": 595,
    "full_name": "DevIT/hooks",
    "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/repos/DevIT/hooks",
    "html_url": "https://github.example.com/DevIT/hooks"
  },
  "environment": {
    "id": 2,
    "name": "DevTools Hook Env",
    "image_url": "https://my_file_server/path/to/devtools_env.tar.gz",
    "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/admin/pre-receive-environments/2",
    "html_url": "https://github.example.com/admin/pre-receive-environments/2",
    "default_environment": false,
    "created_at": "2016-05-20T11:35:45-05:00",
    "hooks_count": 1,
    "download": {
      "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/admin/pre-receive-environments/2/downloads/latest",
      "state": "success",
      "downloaded_at": "2016-05-26T07:42:53-05:00",
      "message": null
    }
  },
  "allow_downstream_configuration": false
}

Edit a pre-receive hook

PATCH /admin/pre_receive_hooks/:pre_receive_hook_id

{
  "name": "Check Commits",
  "environment": {
    "id": 1
  },
  "allow_downstream_configuration": true
}

Response

Status: 200 OK

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Check Commits",
  "enforcement": "disabled",
  "script": "scripts/commmit_check.sh",
  "script_repository": {
    "id": 595,
    "full_name": "DevIT/hooks",
    "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/repos/DevIT/hooks",
    "html_url": "https://github.example.com/DevIT/hooks"
  },
  "environment": {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Default",
    "image_url": "githubenterprise://internal",
    "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/admin/pre-receive-environments/1",
    "html_url": "https://github.example.com/admin/pre-receive-environments/1",
    "default_environment": true,
    "created_at": "2016-05-20T11:35:45-05:00",
    "hooks_count": 1,
    "download": {
      "url": "https://github.example.com/api/v3/admin/pre-receive-environments/1/downloads/latest",
      "state": "success",
      "downloaded_at": "2016-05-26T07:42:53-05:00",
      "message": null
    }
  },
  "allow_downstream_configuration": true
}

Delete a pre-receive hook

DELETE /admin/pre_receive_hooks/:pre_receive_hook_id

Response

Status: 204 No Content