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Get an organization secret

GET
/orgs/{org}/codespaces/secrets/{secret_name}

Gets an organization development environment secret without revealing its encrypted value.

OAuth app tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the admin:org scope to use this endpoint.

API method documentation

org
required
string

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

secret_name
required
string

The name of the secret.

Response

Media type application/json
Codespaces Secret

Secrets for a GitHub Codespace.

object
name
required

The name of the secret

string
created_at
required

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

string format: date-time
visibility
required

The type of repositories in the organization that the secret is visible to

string
Allowed values: all private selected
selected_repositories_url

The API URL at which the list of repositories this secret is visible to can be retrieved

string format: uri
Examples
Example default
{
"name": "GH_TOKEN",
"created_at": "2019-08-10T14:59:22Z",
"updated_at": "2020-01-10T14:59:22Z",
"visibility": "all"
}
Link
string
Example
<https://api.github.com/resource?page=2>; rel="next", <https://api.github.com/resource?page=5>; rel="last"