Create a repo-level variable

POST

/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/variables/{variablename}

Authorizations

• BasicAuth
• AuthorizationHeaderToken
• SudoParam
• SudoHeader
• TOTPHeader

Parameters

Path Parameters

owner

required

string

Name of the owner

repo

required

string

Name of the repository

variablename

required

string

Name of the variable

Request Body

CreateVariableOption defines the properties of the variable to create.

object

value

required

Value of the variable to create. Special characters will be retained. Line endings will be normalized to LF to match the behaviour of browsers. Encode the data with Base64 if line endings should be retained.

string

Example^generated

{
  "value": "example"
}

CreateVariableOption defines the properties of the variable to create.

object

value

required

Value of the variable to create. Special characters will be retained. Line endings will be normalized to LF to match the behaviour of browsers. Encode the data with Base64 if line endings should be retained.

string

Responses

201

Response when creating a repo-level variable

Media typeapplication/json

204

Response when creating a repo-level variable

Media typeapplication/json

400

APIError is error format response

Media typeapplication/json

APIError is an api error with a message

object

message

string

url

string

Example^generated

{
  "message": "example",
  "url": "example"
}

404

APINotFound is a not found error response

Media typeapplication/json

object

errors

Array<string>

message

string

url

string

Example^generated

{
  "errors": [
    "example"
  ],
  "message": "example",
  "url": "example"
}