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Get the tag of a repository by tag name

GET
/repos/{owner}/{repo}/tags/{tag}

Authorizations

Section titled “Authorizations”

Parameters

Section titled “Parameters”

Path Parameters

Section titled “Path Parameters”
owner
required
string

Owner of the repo

repo
required
string

Name of the repo

tag
required
string

Name of tag

Responses

Section titled “Responses”

200

Section titled “200”

Tag

Media typeapplication/json

Tag represents a repository tag

object
archive_download_count

TagArchiveDownloadCount counts how many times a archive was downloaded

object
tar_gz
integer format: int64
zip
integer format: int64
commit
CommitMeta contains meta information of a commit in terms of API.
object
created
string format: date-time
sha
string
url
string
id
string
message
string
name
string
tarball_url
string
zipball_url
string
Examplegenerated
{
  "archive_download_count": {
    "tar_gz": 1,
    "zip": 1
  },
  "commit": {
    "created": "2026-04-15T12:00:00Z",
    "sha": "example",
    "url": "example"
  },
  "id": "example",
  "message": "example",
  "name": "example",
  "tarball_url": "example",
  "zipball_url": "example"
}

404

Section titled “404”

APINotFound is a not found error response

Media typeapplication/json
object
errors
Array<string>
message
string
url
string
Examplegenerated
{
  "errors": [
    "example"
  ],
  "message": "example",
  "url": "example"
}