GET/users/{username}/events

List events for the authenticated user

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.

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

3 parameters

usernamestringrequired

The handle for the GitHub user account.

per_pageintegeroptional

The number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "[Using pagination in the REST API](https://docs.github.com/rest/using-the-rest-api/using-pagination-in-the-rest-api)."

Default:30

pageintegeroptional

The page number of the results to fetch. For more information, see "[Using pagination in the REST API](https://docs.github.com/rest/using-the-rest-api/using-pagination-in-the-rest-api)."

Default:1

1 status code

200Response

idstringrequired

typestringrequired

actorobjectrequired

Actor

repoobjectrequired

orgobjectoptional

Actor

payloadobjectrequired

publicbooleanrequired

created_atstringrequired

import { Client } from "octri-github";

const client = new Client({
  baseUrl: "https://api.github.com",
  auth: { bearer: process.env.API_TOKEN },
  retry: {
    maxAttempts: 3,
    retryOn: [
      408,
      425,
      429,
      500,
      502,
      503,
      504,
    ],
    backoffMs: 500,
    maxBackoffMs: 8000,
  },
  timeoutMs: 30000,
});

const result = await client.events.list({
  username: "octocat",
  perPage: 20,
  page: 1,
});

[
  {
    "id": "22249084947",
    "type": "WatchEvent",
    "actor": {
      "id": 583231,
      "login": "octocat",
      "display_login": "octocat",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
      "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4"
    },
    "repo": {
      "id": 1296269,
      "name": "octocat/Hello-World",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World"
    },
    "payload": {
      "action": "started"
    },
    "public": true,
    "created_at": "2022-06-09T12:47:28Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "22249084964",
    "type": "PushEvent",
    "actor": {
      "id": 583231,
      "login": "octocat",
      "display_login": "octocat",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
      "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/583231?v=4"
    },
    "repo": {
      "id": 1296269,
      "name": "octocat/Hello-World",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World"
    },
    "payload": {
      "repository_id": 1296269,
      "push_id": 10115855396,
      "ref": "refs/heads/master",
      "head": "7a8f3ac80e2ad2f6842cb86f576d4bfe2c03e300",
      "before": "883efe034920928c47fe18598c01249d1a9fdabd"
    },
    "public": false,
    "created_at": "2022-06-07T07:50:26Z"
  }
]

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