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Get users with access to the protected branch

Protected branches are available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see GitHub's products in the GitHub Help documentation.

Lists the people who have push access to this branch.

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/branches/{branch}/protection/restrictions/users

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.

branchstring required

The name of the branch. Cannot contain wildcard characters. To use wildcard characters in branch names, use the GraphQL API.

Response

Response

namestring nullable
emailstring nullable
loginstring required
idinteger required
node_idstring required
avatar_urlstring uri required
gravatar_idstring nullable required
urlstring uri required
html_urlstring uri required
followers_urlstring uri required
following_urlstring required
gists_urlstring required
starred_urlstring required
subscriptions_urlstring uri required
organizations_urlstring uri required
repos_urlstring uri required
events_urlstring required
received_events_urlstring uri required
typestring required
site_adminboolean required
starred_atstring
user_view_typestring

Example response

[
  {
    "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",
    "starred_at": "\"2020-07-09T00:17:55Z\"",
    "user_view_type": "public"
  }
]