v56

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repos

Get repository permissions for a user

Checks the repository permission and role of a collaborator.

The permission attribute provides the legacy base roles of admin, write, read, and none, where the maintain role is mapped to write and the triage role is mapped to read. The role_name attribute provides the name of the assigned role, including custom roles. The permission can also be used to determine which base level of access the collaborator has to the repository.

The calculated permissions are the highest role assigned to the collaborator after considering all sources of grants, including: repo, teams, organization, and enterprise. There is presently not a way to differentiate between an organization level grant and a repository level grant from this endpoint response.

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/collaborators/{username}/permission

Path parameters

ownerstring required

The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.

repostring required

The name of the repository without the .git extension. The name is not case sensitive.

usernamestring required

The handle for the GitHub user account.

Response

if user has admin permissions

permissionstring required
role_namestring required

Example response

{
  "role_name": "admin",
  "user": {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "41d064eb2195891e12d0413f63227ea7",
    "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",
    "role_name": "admin",
    "user_view_type": "public"
  }
}