Get a CodeQL database for a repository

GET

/repos/{owner}/{repo}/code-scanning/codeql/databases/{language}

Gets a CodeQL database for a language in a repository.

By default this endpoint returns JSON metadata about the CodeQL database. To download the CodeQL database binary content, set the Accept header of the request to application/zip, and make sure your HTTP client is configured to follow redirects or use the Location header to make a second request to get the redirect URL.

OAuth app tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the repo scope to use this endpoint with private or public repositories, or the public_repo scope to use this endpoint with only public repositories.

API method documentation

Parameters

Path Parameters

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.

language

required

string

The language of the CodeQL database.

Responses

200

Response

Media type application/json

CodeQL Database

A CodeQL database.

object

id

required

The ID of the CodeQL database.

integer

name

required

The name of the CodeQL database.

string

language

required

The language of the CodeQL database.

string

uploader

required

Simple User

A GitHub user.

object

name

string

nullable

email

string

nullable

login

required

string

id

required

integer format: int64

node_id

required

string

avatar_url

required

string format: uri

gravatar_id

required

string

nullable

url

required

string format: uri

html_url

required

string format: uri

followers_url

required

string format: uri

following_url

required

string

gists_url

required

string

starred_url

required

string

subscriptions_url

required

string format: uri

organizations_url

required

string format: uri

repos_url

required

string format: uri

events_url

required

string

received_events_url

required

string format: uri

type

required

string

site_admin

required

boolean

starred_at

string

user_view_type

string

content_type

required

The MIME type of the CodeQL database file.

string

size

required

The size of the CodeQL database file in bytes.

integer

created_at

required

The date and time at which the CodeQL database was created, in ISO 8601 format’:’ YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ.

string format: date-time

updated_at

required

The date and time at which the CodeQL database was last updated, in ISO 8601 format’:’ YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ.

string format: date-time

url

required

The URL at which to download the CodeQL database. The Accept header must be set to the value of the content_type property.

string format: uri

commit_oid

The commit SHA of the repository at the time the CodeQL database was created.

string

nullable

Examples

Example default

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "database.zip",
  "language": "java",
  "uploader": {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
    "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
    "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
    "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
    "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
    "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
    "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
    "type": "User",
    "site_admin": false
  },
  "content_type": "application/zip",
  "size": 1024,
  "created_at": "2022-09-12T12:14:32Z",
  "updated_at": "2022-09-12T12:14:32Z",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/code-scanning/codeql/databases/java",
  "commit_oid": "1927de39fefa25a9d0e64e3f540ff824a72f538c"
}

302

Found

403

Response if GitHub Advanced Security is not enabled for this repository

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"
}

404

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"
}

503

Service unavailable

Media type application/json

object

code

string

message

string

documentation_url

string

Example ^generated

{
  "code": "example",
  "message": "example",
  "documentation_url": "example"
}