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code-scanning

Get a CodeQL database for a repository

Gets a CodeQL database for a language in a repository.

By default this endpoint returns JSON metadata about the CodeQL database. To download the CodeQL database binary content, set the Accept header of the request to application/zip, and make sure your HTTP client is configured to follow redirects or use the Location header to make a second request to get the redirect URL.

OAuth app tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the repo scope to use this endpoint with private or public repositories, or the public_repo scope to use this endpoint with only public repositories.

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/codeql/databases/{language}

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.

languagestring required

The language of the CodeQL database.

Response

idinteger required

The ID of the CodeQL database.

namestring required

The name of the CodeQL database.

languagestring required

The language of the CodeQL database.

content_typestring required

The MIME type of the CodeQL database file.

sizeinteger required

The size of the CodeQL database file in bytes.

created_atstring date-time required

The date and time at which the CodeQL database was created, in ISO 8601 format':' YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ.

updated_atstring date-time required

The date and time at which the CodeQL database was last updated, in ISO 8601 format':' YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ.

urlstring uri required

The URL at which to download the CodeQL database. The Accept header must be set to the value of the content_type property.

commit_oidstring nullable

The commit SHA of the repository at the time the CodeQL database was created.

Example response

{
  "uploader": {
    "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"
  }
}