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Get GitHub Actions cache usage for a repository

GET
/repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/cache/usage

Gets GitHub Actions cache usage for a repository. The data fetched using this API is refreshed approximately every 5 minutes, so values returned from this endpoint may take at least 5 minutes to get updated.

Anyone with read access to the repository can use this endpoint.

If the repository is private, 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.

Response

Media type application/json
Actions Cache Usage by repository

GitHub Actions Cache Usage by repository.

object
full_name
required

The repository owner and name for the cache usage being shown.

string
active_caches_size_in_bytes
required

The sum of the size in bytes of all the active cache items in the repository.

integer
active_caches_count
required

The number of active caches in the repository.

integer
Examples
Example default
{
"full_name": "octo-org/Hello-World",
"active_caches_size_in_bytes": 2322142,
"active_caches_count": 3
}