Create or update file contents

PUT

/repos/{owner}/{repo}/contents/{path}

Creates a new file or replaces an existing file in a repository. You must authenticate using an access token with the workflow scope to use this endpoint.

Note: If you use this endpoint and the "Delete a file" endpoint in parallel, the concurrent requests will conflict and you will receive errors. You must use these endpoints serially instead.

Request Example

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

curl --location --request PUT 'https://api.github.com/repos///contents/' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "committer": {
        "email": "octocat@github.com",
        "name": "Monalisa Octocat"
    },
    "content": "bXkgbmV3IGZpbGUgY29udGVudHM=",
    "message": "my commit message"
}'

Response Example

200 - Example 1

{
    "commit": {
        "author": {
            "date": "string",
            "email": "string",
            "name": "string"
        },
        "committer": {
            "date": "string",
            "email": "string",
            "name": "string"
        },
        "html_url": "string",
        "message": "string",
        "node_id": "string",
        "parents": [
            {
                "html_url": "string",
                "sha": "string",
                "url": "string"
            }
        ],
        "sha": "string",
        "tree": {
            "sha": "string",
            "url": "string"
        },
        "url": "string",
        "verification": {
            "payload": "string",
            "reason": "string",
            "signature": "string",
            "verified": true
        }
    },
    "content": {
        "_links": {
            "git": "string",
            "html": "string",
            "self": "string"
        },
        "download_url": "string",
        "git_url": "string",
        "html_url": "string",
        "name": "string",
        "path": "string",
        "sha": "string",
        "size": 0,
        "type": "string",
        "url": "string"
    }
}

Request

Path Params

Body Params application/json

Examples

Responses

🟢200Response

application/json

Body

🟢201Response

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Modified at 2023-08-15 02:59:29

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