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 ”Tag
Media type application/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
Example generated
{ "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"}APINotFound is a not found error response
Media type application/json
object
errors
Array<string>
message
string
url
string
Example generated
{ "errors": [ "example" ], "message": "example", "url": "example"}