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dependabot

Get a repository public key

Gets your public key, which you need to encrypt secrets. You need to encrypt a secret before you can create or update secrets. Anyone with read access to the repository can use this endpoint.

OAuth app tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the repo scope to use this endpoint if the repository is private.

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/dependabot/secrets/public-key

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.

Response

key_idstring required

The identifier for the key.

keystring required

The Base64 encoded public key.

Example response

{
  "key_id": "1234567",
  "key": "hBT5WZEj8ZoOv6TYJsfWq7MxTEQopZO5/IT3ZCVQPzs="
}