Follow a user

PUT

/user/following/{username}

Note that you’ll need to set Content-Length to zero when calling out to this endpoint. For more information, see “HTTP verbs.”

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

API method documentation

Parameters

Path Parameters

username

required

string

The handle for the GitHub user account.

Responses

204

Response

304

Not modified

401

Requires authentication

Media typeapplication/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 typeapplication/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 typeapplication/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

Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

Media typeapplication/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

string

nullable

integer

integer

nullable

Array<string>

Array<string>

nullable

Example^generated

{
  "message": "example",
  "documentation_url": "example",
  "errors": [
    {
      "resource": "example",
      "field": "example",
      "message": "example",
      "code": "example",
      "index": 1,
      "value": [
        "example"
      ]
    }
  ]
}