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Approve a workflow run for a fork pull request

POST
/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run_id}/approve

Approves a workflow run for a pull request from a public fork of a first time contributor. For more information, see “Approving workflow runs from public forks.“

OAuth tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the repo scope to use this endpoint.

API method documentation

owner
required
string

The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.

repo
required
string

The name of the repository without the .git extension. The name is not case sensitive.

run_id
required
integer

The unique identifier of the workflow run.

Response

Media type application/json
Empty Object

An object without any properties.

object
Examples
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null

Forbidden

Media type application/json
Basic Error

Basic Error

object
message
string
documentation_url
string
url
string
status
string
Example generated
{
"message": "example",
"documentation_url": "example",
"url": "example",
"status": "example"
}

Resource not found

Media type application/json
Basic Error

Basic Error

object
message
string
documentation_url
string
url
string
status
string
Example generated
{
"message": "example",
"documentation_url": "example",
"url": "example",
"status": "example"
}