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Create an organization invitation

POST
/orgs/{org}/invitations

Invite people to an organization by using their GitHub user ID or their email address. In order to create invitations in an organization, the authenticated user must be an organization owner.

This endpoint triggers notifications. Creating content too quickly using this endpoint may result in secondary rate limiting. For more information, see “Rate limits for the API” and “Best practices for using the REST API.”

API method documentation

Parameters

Section titled “ Parameters ”

Path Parameters

Section titled “ Path Parameters ”
org
required
string

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

Request Body

Section titled “ Request Body ”
Media type application/json
object
invitee_id

Required unless you provide email. GitHub user ID for the person you are inviting.

integer
email

Required unless you provide invitee_id. Email address of the person you are inviting, which can be an existing GitHub user.

string
role

The role for the new member.

  • admin - Organization owners with full administrative rights to the organization and complete access to all repositories and teams.
  • direct_member - Non-owner organization members with ability to see other members and join teams by invitation.
  • billing_manager - Non-owner organization members with ability to manage the billing settings of your organization.
  • reinstate - The previous role assigned to the invitee before they were removed from your organization. Can be one of the roles listed above. Only works if the invitee was previously part of your organization.
string
default: direct_member
Allowed values: admin direct_member billing_manager reinstate
team_ids

Specify IDs for the teams you want to invite new members to.

Array<integer>
Examples
Example default 
{
  "email": "octocat@github.com",
  "role": "direct_member",
  "team_ids": [
    12,
    26
  ]
}

Responses

Section titled “ Responses ”

201

Section titled “ 201 ”

Response

Media type application/json
Organization Invitation

Organization Invitation

object
id
required
integer format: int64
login
required
string
nullable
email
required
string
nullable
role
required
string
created_at
required
string
failed_at
string
nullable
failed_reason
string
nullable
inviter
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
team_count
required
integer
node_id
required
string
invitation_teams_url
required
string
invitation_source
string
Examples
Example default 
{
  "id": 1,
  "login": "monalisa",
  "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
  "email": "octocat@github.com",
  "role": "direct_member",
  "created_at": "2016-11-30T06:46:10-08:00",
  "inviter": {
    "login": "other_user",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/other_user_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/other_user",
    "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/followers",
    "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/following{/other_user}",
    "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/gists{/gist_id}",
    "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
    "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/subscriptions",
    "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/orgs",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/events{/privacy}",
    "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/other_user/received_events",
    "type": "User",
    "site_admin": false
  },
  "team_count": 2,
  "invitation_teams_url": "https://api.github.com/organizations/2/invitations/1/teams",
  "invitation_source": "member"
}

404

Section titled “ 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"
}

422

Section titled “ 422 ”

Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

Media type application/json
Validation Error

Validation Error

object
message
required
string
documentation_url
required
string
errors
Array<object>
object
resource
string
field
string
message
string
code
required
string
index
integer
value
One of:
string
nullable
Example generated 
{
  "message": "example",
  "documentation_url": "example",
  "errors": [
    {
      "resource": "example",
      "field": "example",
      "message": "example",
      "code": "example",
      "index": 1,
      "value": [
        "example"
      ]
    }
  ]
}