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Update an environment variable

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Updates an environment variable that you can reference in a GitHub Actions workflow.

Authenticated users must have collaborator access to a repository to create, update, or read variables.

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

patch/repos/{owner}/{repo}/environments/{environment_name}/variables/{name}

Request

  • Base URL: http://HOSTNAME/api/v3
  • URL: http://HOSTNAME/api/v3/repos/{owner}/{repo}/environments/{environment_name}/variables/{name}
  • 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.

namestring required

The name of the variable.

environment_namestring required

The name of the environment. The name must be URL encoded. For example, any slashes in the name must be replaced with %2F.

Request body

namestring

The name of the variable.

valuestring

The value of the variable.

Response

Response

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