codespaces

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.

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

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

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.github.com
  • URL: https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/codespaces/secrets/public-key
  • Auth: none declared

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

Response

key_idstring required

The identifier for the key.

keystring required

The Base64 encoded public key.

idinteger
urlstring
titlestring
created_atstring

Example response

{
  "key_id": "1234567",
  "key": "hBT5WZEj8ZoOv6TYJsfWq7MxTEQopZO5/IT3ZCVQPzs=",
  "id": 2,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/user/keys/2",
  "title": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAA",
  "created_at": "2011-01-26T19:01:12Z"
}

Changes

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