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Create a review for a pull request

Creates a review on a specified pull request.

This endpoint triggers notifications. Creating content too quickly using this endpoint may result in secondary rate limiting. For more information, see "Rate limits for the API" and "Best practices for using the REST API."

Pull request reviews created in the PENDING state are not submitted and therefore do not include the submitted_at property in the response. To create a pending review for a pull request, leave the event parameter blank. For more information about submitting a PENDING review, see "Submit a review for a pull request."

Note: To comment on a specific line in a file, you need to first determine the position of that line in the diff. To see a pull request diff, add the application/vnd.github.v3.diff media type to the Accept header of a call to the Get a pull request endpoint.

The position value equals the number of lines down from the first "@@" hunk header in the file you want to add a comment. The line just below the "@@" line is position 1, the next line is position 2, and so on. The position in the diff continues to increase through lines of whitespace and additional hunks until the beginning of a new file.

This endpoint supports the following custom media types. For more information, see "Media types."

  • application/vnd.github-commitcomment.raw+json: Returns the raw markdown body. Response will include body. This is the default if you do not pass any specific media type.
  • application/vnd.github-commitcomment.text+json: Returns a text only representation of the markdown body. Response will include body_text.
  • application/vnd.github-commitcomment.html+json: Returns HTML rendered from the body's markdown. Response will include body_html.
  • application/vnd.github-commitcomment.full+json: Returns raw, text, and HTML representations. Response will include body, body_text, and body_html.
post/repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{pull_number}/reviews

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.

pull_numberinteger required

The number that identifies the pull request.

Request body

commit_idstring

The SHA of the commit that needs a review. Not using the latest commit SHA may render your review comment outdated if a subsequent commit modifies the line you specify as the position. Defaults to the most recent commit in the pull request when you do not specify a value.

bodystring

Required when using REQUEST_CHANGES or COMMENT for the event parameter. The body text of the pull request review.

event'APPROVE' | 'REQUEST_CHANGES' | 'COMMENT'

The review action you want to perform. The review actions include: APPROVE, REQUEST_CHANGES, or COMMENT. By leaving this blank, you set the review action state to PENDING, which means you will need to submit the pull request review when you are ready.

Example request

{
  "comments": [
    {
      "line": 28,
      "side": "RIGHT",
      "start_line": 26,
      "start_side": "LEFT"
    }
  ]
}

Response

Response

idinteger required

Unique identifier of the review

node_idstring required
bodystring required

The text of the review.

statestring required
html_urlstring uri required
pull_request_urlstring uri required
submitted_atstring date-time
commit_idstring nullable required

A commit SHA for the review. If the commit object was garbage collected or forcibly deleted, then it no longer exists in Git and this value will be null.

body_htmlstring
body_textstring
author_association'COLLABORATOR' | 'CONTRIBUTOR' | 'FIRST_TIMER' | 'FIRST_TIME_CONTRIBUTOR' | 'MANNEQUIN' | 'MEMBER' | 'NONE' | 'OWNER' required

How the author is associated with the repository.

Example response

{
  "id": 42,
  "node_id": "MDE3OlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0UmV2aWV3ODA=",
  "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\""
  },
  "body": "This looks great.",
  "state": "CHANGES_REQUESTED",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/12#pullrequestreview-80",
  "pull_request_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/12",
  "commit_id": "54bb654c9e6025347f57900a4a5c2313a96b8035",
  "author_association": "OWNER"
}