github/rest-api-description resource

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1628 stars · 336 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

OpenAPI (Swagger) descriptions of GitHub's REST API, published as bundled and dereferenced JSON documents in OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1 formats. It is a machine-readable specification dataset rather than executable software.

Use cases

• generate a GitHub API client SDK for my language
• validate my GitHub API requests against the official spec
• browse GitHub REST API endpoints in an OpenAPI viewer
• build a mock server for GitHub's REST API
• auto-generate documentation for GitHub API integrations
• type-check my GitHub API wrapper code

When to choose

• you need a machine-readable spec of GitHub's REST API for codegen, validation, or mocking
• you're building tooling that consumes GitHub API metadata
• you want the official, GitHub-maintained OpenAPI description

When to avoid

• you need human-readable API documentation (use docs.github.com instead)
• you need a client library rather than a specification
• you need full coverage of every header or alias path, which are still incomplete

Facets

dataset · maturity stable

api-documentation documentation sdk apis developer-tools documentation cross-platform openapi github-rest-api api-specification code-generation

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="github/rest-api-description")