Restore a package for a user

POST

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

Restores an entire package for a user.

You can restore a deleted package under the following conditions:

• The package was deleted within the last 30 days.
• The same package namespace and version is still available and not reused for a new package. If the same package namespace is not available, you will not be able to restore your package. In this scenario, to restore the deleted package, you must delete the new package that uses the deleted package’s namespace first.

If the package_type belongs to a GitHub Packages registry that supports granular permissions, the authenticated user must have admin permissions to the package. For the list of these registries, see “About permissions for GitHub Packages.”

OAuth app tokens and personal access tokens (classic) need the read:packages and write:packages scopes 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.

Query Parameters

token

string

Package token

Responses

204

Response

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"
}