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List events for the authenticated user

Changed on Sep 17, 2026

If you are authenticated as the given user, you will see your private events. Otherwise, you'll only see public events. Optional: use the fine-grained token with following permission set to view private events: "Events" user permissions (read).

[!NOTE] This API is not built to serve real-time use cases. Depending on the time of day, event latency can be anywhere from 30s to 6h.

get/users/{username}/events

Request

Base URL: https://api.github.com
URL: https://api.github.com/users/{username}/events
Auth: none declared

Path parameters

usernamestring required

The handle for the GitHub user account.

Query parameters

per_pageinteger

The number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

pageinteger

The page number of the results to fetch. For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

Response

idstring required

typestring nullable required

publicboolean required

created_atstring date-time nullable required

Example response

[
  {
    "payload": {
      "discussion": {
        "state_reason": "resolved",
        "labels": [
          {
            "id": 208045946,
            "node_id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyMDgwNDU5NDY=",
            "url": "https://api.github.com/repositories/42/labels/bug",
            "name": "bug",
            "description": "Something isn't working",
            "color": "FFFFFF",
            "default": true,
            "archived_at": "2023-01-01T12:00:00Z",
            "archived_by": {
              "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"
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
]

Changes

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