Turns GitHub REST API endpoints into generic request options
@octokit/endpoint
combines GitHub REST API routes with your parameters and turns them into generic request options that can be used in any request library.
@octokit/endpoint
directly from esm.sh
<script type="module"> import { endpoint } from "https://esm.sh/@octokit/endpoint"; </script>Node
Install with npm install @octokit/endpoint
import { endpoint } from "@octokit/endpoint";
Example for List organization repositories
const requestOptions = endpoint("GET /orgs/{org}/repos", { headers: { authorization: "token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001", }, org: "octokit", type: "private", });
The resulting requestOptions
looks as follows
{ "method": "GET", "url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/octokit/repos?type=private", "headers": { "accept": "application/vnd.github.v3+json", "authorization": "token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001", "user-agent": "octokit/endpoint.js v1.2.3" } }
You can pass requestOptions
to common request libraries
const { url, ...options } = requestOptions; // using with fetch (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API) fetch(url, options); // using with request (https://github.com/request/request) request(requestOptions); // using with got (https://github.com/sindresorhus/got) got[options.method](url, options); // using with axios axios(requestOptions);
endpoint(route, options)
or endpoint(options)
name type description route
String If set, it has to be a string consisting of URL and the request method, e.g., GET /orgs/{org}
. If it’s set to a URL, only the method defaults to GET
. options.method
String Required unless route
is set. Any supported http verb. Defaults to GET
. options.url
String Required unless route
is set. A path or full URL which may contain :variable
or {variable}
placeholders, e.g., /orgs/{org}/repos
. The url
is parsed using url-template. options.baseUrl
String Defaults to https://api.github.com
. options.headers
Object Custom headers. Passed headers are merged with defaults:
headers['user-agent']
defaults to octokit-endpoint.js/1.2.3
(where 1.2.3
is the released version).
headers['accept']
defaults to application/vnd.github.v3+json
.
options.mediaType.format
String Media type param, such as raw
, diff
, or text+json
. See Media Types. Setting options.mediaType.format
will amend the headers.accept
value. options.data
Any Set request body directly instead of setting it to JSON based on additional parameters. See "The data
parameter" below. options.request
Object Pass custom meta information for the request. The request
object will be returned as is.
All other options will be passed depending on the method
and url
options.
url
, it will be used as the replacement. For example, if the passed options are {url: '/orgs/{org}/repos', org: 'foo'}
the returned options.url
is https://api.github.com/orgs/foo/repos
.method
is GET
or HEAD
, the option is passed as a query parameter.Result
endpoint()
is a synchronous method and returns an object with the following keys:
method
String The http method. Always lowercase. url
String The url with placeholders replaced with passed parameters. headers
Object All header names are lowercased. body
Any The request body if one is present. Only for PATCH
, POST
, PUT
, DELETE
requests. request
Object Request meta option, it will be returned as it was passed into endpoint()
Override or set default options. Example:
const request = require("request"); const myEndpoint = require("@octokit/endpoint").defaults({ baseUrl: "https://github-enterprise.acme-inc.com/api/v3", headers: { "user-agent": "myApp/1.2.3", authorization: `token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001`, }, org: "my-project", per_page: 100, }); request(myEndpoint(`GET /orgs/{org}/repos`));
You can call .defaults()
again on the returned method, the defaults will cascade.
const myProjectEndpoint = endpoint.defaults({ baseUrl: "https://github-enterprise.acme-inc.com/api/v3", headers: { "user-agent": "myApp/1.2.3", }, org: "my-project", }); const myProjectEndpointWithAuth = myProjectEndpoint.defaults({ headers: { authorization: `token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001`, }, });
myProjectEndpointWithAuth
now defaults the baseUrl
, headers['user-agent']
, org
and headers['authorization']
on top of headers['accept']
that is set by the global default.
The current default options.
endpoint.DEFAULTS.baseUrl; // https://api.github.com const myEndpoint = endpoint.defaults({ baseUrl: "https://github-enterprise.acme-inc.com/api/v3", }); myEndpoint.DEFAULTS.baseUrl; // https://github-enterprise.acme-inc.com/api/v3
endpoint.merge(route, options)
or endpoint.merge(options)
Get the defaulted endpoint options, but without parsing them into request options:
const myProjectEndpoint = endpoint.defaults({ baseUrl: "https://github-enterprise.acme-inc.com/api/v3", headers: { "user-agent": "myApp/1.2.3", }, org: "my-project", }); myProjectEndpoint.merge("GET /orgs/{org}/repos", { headers: { authorization: `token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001`, }, org: "my-secret-project", type: "private", }); // { // baseUrl: 'https://github-enterprise.acme-inc.com/api/v3', // method: 'GET', // url: '/orgs/{org}/repos', // headers: { // accept: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json', // authorization: `token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001`, // 'user-agent': 'myApp/1.2.3' // }, // org: 'my-secret-project', // type: 'private' // }
Stateless method to turn endpoint options into request options. Calling endpoint(options)
is the same as calling endpoint.parse(endpoint.merge(options))
.
data
parameter – set request body directly
Some endpoints such as Render a Markdown document in raw mode don’t have parameters that are sent as request body keys, instead, the request body needs to be set directly. In these cases, set the data
parameter.
const options = endpoint("POST /markdown/raw", { data: "Hello world github/linguist#1 **cool**, and #1!", headers: { accept: "text/html;charset=utf-8", "content-type": "text/plain", }, }); // options is // { // method: 'post', // url: 'https://api.github.com/markdown/raw', // headers: { // accept: 'text/html;charset=utf-8', // 'content-type': 'text/plain', // 'user-agent': userAgent // }, // body: 'Hello world github/linguist#1 **cool**, and #1!' // }Set parameters for both the URL/query and the request body
There are API endpoints that accept both query parameters as well as a body. In that case, you need to add the query parameters as templates to options.url
, as defined in the RFC 6570 URI Template specification.
Example
endpoint( "POST https://uploads.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/releases/1/assets{?name,label}", { name: "example.zip", label: "short description", headers: { "content-type": "text/plain", "content-length": 14, authorization: `token 0000000000000000000000000000000000000001`, }, data: "Hello, world!", }, );
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