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Request generation of a software bill of materials (SBOM) for a repository.

GET
/repos/{owner}/{repo}/dependency-graph/sbom/generate-report

Triggers a job to generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) for a repository in SPDX JSON format.

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
object
sbom_url

URL to poll for the SBOM export result.

string
Examples
Example default
{
"sbom_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/github/example/dependency-graph/sbom/fetch-report/4bab1a7e-da63-4828-9488-44e0e01a7c1b"
}

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"
}