List package versions for a package owned by a user

GET

/users/{username}/packages/{package_type}/{package_name}/versions

Lists package versions for a public package owned by a specified user.

OAuth app tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the read:packages scope to use this endpoint. For more information, see “About permissions for GitHub Packages.”

API method documentation

Parameters

Path Parameters

package_type

required

string

Allowed values: npm maven rubygems docker nuget container

The type of supported package. Packages in GitHub’s Gradle registry have the type maven. Docker images pushed to GitHub’s Container registry (ghcr.io) have the type container. You can use the type docker to find images that were pushed to GitHub’s Docker registry (docker.pkg.github.com), even if these have now been migrated to the Container registry.

package_name

required

string

The name of the package.

username

required

string

The handle for the GitHub user account.

Responses

200

Response

Media type application/json

Array<object>

Package Version

A version of a software package

object

id

required

Unique identifier of the package version.

integer

name

required

The name of the package version.

string

url

required

string

package_html_url

required

string

html_url

string

license

string

description

string

created_at

required

string format: date-time

updated_at

required

string format: date-time

deleted_at

string format: date-time

metadata

Package Version Metadata

object

package_type

required

string

Allowed values: npm maven rubygems docker nuget container

container

Container Metadata

object

tags

required

Array<string>

docker

Docker Metadata

object

tag

Array<string>

Examples

Example default

[
  {
    "id": 3497268,
    "name": "0.3.0",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/packages/rubygems/octo-name/versions/3497268",
    "package_html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/octo-name-repo/packages/40201",
    "license": "MIT",
    "created_at": "2020-08-31T15:22:11Z",
    "updated_at": "2020-08-31T15:22:12Z",
    "description": "Project for octocats",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/octo-name-repo/packages/40201?version=0.3.0",
    "metadata": {
      "package_type": "rubygems"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": 387039,
    "name": "0.2.0",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/packages/rubygems/octo-name/versions/387039",
    "package_html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/octo-name-repo/packages/40201",
    "license": "MIT",
    "created_at": "2019-12-01T20:49:29Z",
    "updated_at": "2019-12-01T20:49:30Z",
    "description": "Project for octocats",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/octo-name-repo/packages/40201?version=0.2.0",
    "metadata": {
      "package_type": "rubygems"
    }
  },
  {
    "id": 169770,
    "name": "0.1.0",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/packages/rubygems/octo-name/versions/169770",
    "package_html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/octo-name-repo/packages/40201",
    "license": "MIT",
    "created_at": "2019-10-20T14:17:14Z",
    "updated_at": "2019-10-20T14:17:15Z",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/octo-name-repo/packages/40201?version=0.1.0",
    "metadata": {
      "package_type": "rubygems"
    }
  }
]

401

Requires authentication

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"
}

403

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"
}

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"
}