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GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions is GitHub's hosted CI/CD and workflow automation platform, and this record covers the REST API surface that drives it. Eighty-two operations across eleven resource areas let a caller dispatch and cancel workflow runs, poll runs and jobs, read and prune logs, artifacts and caches, seal and rotate encrypted secrets and variables, set Actions permissions and default workflow token scop

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Approve a Pending Deployment
Approve the pending deployment environments for a run and follow it to completion.Cancel a Workflow Run and Confirm
Cancel a run and confirm it stopped, force-cancelling if necessary.Collect Workflow Run Artifacts
Resolve the download URL for the first artifact of the latest run.Dispatch and Track a Workflow Run
Dispatch a workflow and follow the resulting run to completion.Inspect Failed Job Logs
Resolve the log download URL for a job in the latest failed run.Prune Repository Caches
Find and delete the largest Actions cache in a repository.Re-run Failed Jobs and Track
Re-run the failed jobs of the latest failed run and follow it to completion.Register a Self-hosted Runner
Gather runner binaries and a registration token for a repository.Share an Organization Secret with Selected Repositories
Create a selected-visibility org secret and scope it to repositories.Upsert a Repository Secret
Create or update an encrypted repository secret and confirm it.Upsert a Repository Variable
Create or update a repository variable by name and confirm its value.

Configuration & Secrets Management

Create a repository variableDelete a repository variableChange an existing repository variableCreate or update a repository secretDelete a repository secretCreate or update an organization secretDelete an organization secretReplace the repositories that can use an org secretList a repository's Actions variablesRead one repository variableList a repository's own Actions secretsGet the key for encrypting a repository secretLook up one repository secret's metadataList organization secrets shared with a repositoryList all of an organization's Actions secretsGet the key for encrypting an organization secretLook up one organization secret's metadataList repositories selected for an org secret

Continuous Integration Management

Delete a workflow runApprove a first-time contributor's fork runCancel a workflow runApprove or reject a custom deployment protection ruleForce cancel a stuck workflow runDelete the logs of a workflow runApprove or reject deployments awaiting a reviewerRe-run an entire workflow runRe-run only the failed jobs of a runDelete caches matching a full cache keyDelete one Actions cache by its IDDisable a workflowRe-enable a disabled workflowManually trigger a workflow runRe-run a single job and its dependentsDelete a workflow artifactList workflow runs across a whole repositoryGet the status of one workflow runSee the deployment review history for a runGet one attempt of a re-run workflowDownload logs for one attempt of a runDownload all logs for a workflow runList deployments waiting on protection rulesCheck billable minutes and run time for a runList a repository's Actions cachesCheck a repository's Actions cache usageList the workflows defined in a repositoryGet one workflow's definition detailsList the runs of one specific workflowCheck billable minutes used by a workflowList the jobs in a workflow runList jobs for a specific run attemptGet the status and steps of one jobDownload the log of a single jobList build artifacts across a repositoryLook up one workflow artifactDownload an artifact as a zip archiveList the artifacts produced by one workflow run

Other things you can do

Force-remove a self-hosted runner from a repoGet a token to register a new runnerGet a token to unregister a runnerReplace all custom labels on a runnerAdd custom labels to a runnerClear every custom label from a runnerRemove one custom label from a runnerCreate a self-hosted runner groupDelete a self-hosted runner groupRename or change visibility of a runner groupCustomize a repository's OIDC subject claimCustomize an organization's OIDC subject claimEnable Actions and set allowed actions for a repoSet default GITHUB_TOKEN permissions for a repoSet an organization's Actions permissions policyList a repository's self-hosted runnersGet details of one self-hosted runnerList runner application downloadsList the labels on a self-hosted runnerList an organization's self-hosted runner groupsGet the settings of one runner groupView a repository's OIDC subject claim templateView an organization's OIDC subject claim templateCheck whether Actions is enabled on a repositoryView default GITHUB_TOKEN permissions for a repoView an organization's Actions permissions policy