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orgs

Set organization membership for a user

Only authenticated organization owners can add a member to the organization or update the member's role.

  • If the authenticated user is adding a member to the organization, the invited user will receive an email inviting them to the organization. The user's membership status will be pending until they accept the invitation.

  • Authenticated users can update a user's membership by passing the role parameter. If the authenticated user changes a member's role to admin, the affected user will receive an email notifying them that they've been made an organization owner. If the authenticated user changes an owner's role to member, no email will be sent.

Rate limits

To prevent abuse, organization owners are limited to creating 50 organization invitations for an organization within a 24 hour period. If the organization is more than one month old or on a paid plan, the limit is 500 invitations per 24 hour period.

put/orgs/{org}/memberships/{username}

Path parameters

orgstring required

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

usernamestring required

The handle for the GitHub user account.

Request body

role'admin' | 'member'

The role to give the user in the organization. Can be one of:

  • admin - The user will become an owner of the organization.
  • member - The user will become a non-owner member of the organization.

Response

Response

urlstring uri required
state'active' | 'pending' required

The state of the member in the organization. The pending state indicates the user has not yet accepted an invitation.

role'admin' | 'member' | 'billing_manager' required

The user's membership type in the organization.

direct_membershipboolean

Whether the user has direct membership in the organization.

enterprise_teams_providing_indirect_membershipstring[]

The slugs of the enterprise teams providing the user with indirect membership in the organization. A limit of 100 enterprise team slugs is returned.

organization_urlstring uri required

Example response

{
  "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/octocat/memberships/defunkt",
  "state": "active",
  "role": "admin",
  "direct_membership": true,
  "enterprise_teams_providing_indirect_membership": [
    "ent:team-one",
    "ent:team-two"
  ],
  "organization_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/octocat",
  "organization": {
    "login": "github",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDEyOk9yZ2FuaXphdGlvbjE=",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/events",
    "hooks_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/hooks",
    "issues_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/issues",
    "members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/members{/member}",
    "public_members_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/github/public_members{/member}",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "description": "A great organization"
  },
  "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",
    "starred_at": "\"2020-07-09T00:17:55Z\"",
    "user_view_type": "public"
  }
}