Sample - GitHub REST API
GET/repos/{owner}/{repo}/dependency-graph/sbom/generate-report

Request generation of a software bill of materials (SBOM) for a repository.

Triggers a job to generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) for a repository in SPDX JSON format.

  • RetriesRetries up to 2×, 500ms backoff, 30s timeout.

2 parameters
ownerstringrequired
The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.
repostringrequired
The name of the repository without the `.git` extension. The name is not case sensitive.

3 status codes
201Response
sbom_urlstringoptional
URL to poll for the SBOM export result.
403Forbidden
messagestringoptional
documentation_urlstringoptional
urlstringoptional
statusstringoptional
404Resource not found
messagestringoptional
documentation_urlstringoptional
urlstringoptional
statusstringoptional

Error handling

A 403 is returned: Forbidden. A 404 is returned: Resource not found.