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Create a review comment for a pull request

Creates a review comment on the diff of a specified pull request. To add a regular comment to a pull request timeline, see "Create an issue comment."

If your comment applies to more than one line in the pull request diff, you should use the parameters line, side, and optionally start_line and start_side in your request.

The position parameter is closing down. If you use position, the line, side, start_line, and start_side parameters are not required.

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."

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}/comments

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

bodystring required

The text of the review comment.

commit_idstring required

The SHA of the commit needing a comment. Not using the latest commit SHA may render your comment outdated if a subsequent commit modifies the line you specify as the position.

pathstring required

The relative path to the file that necessitates a comment.

positioninteger

This parameter is closing down. Use line instead. The position in the diff where you want to add a review comment. Note this value is not the same as the line number in the file. 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.

side'LEFT' | 'RIGHT'

In a split diff view, the side of the diff that the pull request's changes appear on. Can be LEFT or RIGHT. Use LEFT for deletions that appear in red. Use RIGHT for additions that appear in green or unchanged lines that appear in white and are shown for context. For a multi-line comment, side represents whether the last line of the comment range is a deletion or addition. For more information, see "Diff view options" in the GitHub Help documentation.

lineinteger

Required unless using subject_type:file. The line of the blob in the pull request diff that the comment applies to. For a multi-line comment, the last line of the range that your comment applies to.

start_lineinteger

Required when using multi-line comments unless using in_reply_to. The start_line is the first line in the pull request diff that your multi-line comment applies to. To learn more about multi-line comments, see "Commenting on a pull request" in the GitHub Help documentation.

start_side'LEFT' | 'RIGHT' | 'side'

Required when using multi-line comments unless using in_reply_to. The start_side is the starting side of the diff that the comment applies to. Can be LEFT or RIGHT. To learn more about multi-line comments, see "Commenting on a pull request" in the GitHub Help documentation. See side in this table for additional context.

in_reply_tointeger

The ID of the review comment to reply to. To find the ID of a review comment with "List review comments on a pull request". When specified, all parameters other than body in the request body are ignored.

subject_type'line' | 'file'

The level at which the comment is targeted.

Example request

{
  "in_reply_to": 2
}

Response

urlstring required

URL for the pull request review comment

pull_request_review_idinteger nullable required

The ID of the pull request review to which the comment belongs.

idinteger required

The ID of the pull request review comment.

node_idstring required

The node ID of the pull request review comment.

diff_hunkstring required

The diff of the line that the comment refers to.

pathstring required

The relative path of the file to which the comment applies.

positioninteger

The line index in the diff to which the comment applies. This field is closing down; use line instead.

original_positioninteger

The index of the original line in the diff to which the comment applies. This field is closing down; use original_line instead.

commit_idstring required

The SHA of the commit to which the comment applies.

original_commit_idstring required

The SHA of the original commit to which the comment applies.

in_reply_to_idinteger

The comment ID to reply to.

bodystring required

The text of the comment.

created_atstring date-time required

updated_atstring date-time required

html_urlstring uri required

HTML URL for the pull request review comment.

pull_request_urlstring uri required

URL for the pull request that the review comment belongs to.

How the author is associated with the repository.

start_lineinteger nullable

The first line of the range for a multi-line comment.

original_start_lineinteger nullable

The first line of the range for a multi-line comment.

start_side'LEFT' | 'RIGHT' nullable

The side of the first line of the range for a multi-line comment.

lineinteger

The line of the blob to which the comment applies. The last line of the range for a multi-line comment

original_lineinteger

The line of the blob to which the comment applies. The last line of the range for a multi-line comment

side'LEFT' | 'RIGHT'

The side of the diff to which the comment applies. The side of the last line of the range for a multi-line comment

subject_type'line' | 'file'

The level at which the comment is targeted, can be a diff line or a file.

body_htmlstring

body_textstring

Example response

{
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/comments/1",
  "pull_request_review_id": 42,
  "id": 1,
  "node_id": "MDI0OlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0UmV2aWV3Q29tbWVudDEw",
  "diff_hunk": "@@ -16,33 +16,40 @@ public class Connection : IConnection...",
  "path": "config/database.yaml",
  "position": 1,
  "original_position": 4,
  "commit_id": "6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
  "original_commit_id": "9c48853fa3dc5c1c3d6f1f1cd1f2743e72652840",
  "in_reply_to_id": 8,
  "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"
  },
  "body": "We should probably include a check for null values here.",
  "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1#discussion-diff-1",
  "pull_request_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1",
  "author_association": "OWNER",
  "_links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/comments/1"
    },
    "html": {
      "href": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1#discussion-diff-1"
    },
    "pull_request": {
      "href": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1"
    }
  },
  "start_line": 2,
  "original_start_line": 2,
  "line": 2,
  "original_line": 2,
  "body_html": "\"<p>comment body</p>\"",
  "body_text": "\"comment body\""
}