Team members - GitHub Docs

Use the REST API to create and manage membership of teams in your GitHub organization.

About team members

These endpoints are only available to authenticated members of the team's organization. OAuth access tokens require the read:org scope. GitHub generates the team's slug from the team name.

Note: When you have team synchronization set up for a team with your organization's identity provider (IdP), you will see an error if you attempt to use the API to make changes to the team's membership. If you have access to manage group membership in your IdP, you can manage GitHub team membership through your identity provider, which automatically adds and removes team members in an organization. For more information, see "Synchronizing teams between your identity provider and GitHub."

List pending team invitations

Works with GitHub Apps

The return hash contains a role field which refers to the Organization Invitation role and will be one of the following values: direct_member, admin, billing_manager, hiring_manager, or reinstate. If the invitee is not a GitHub member, the login field in the return hash will be null.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route GET /organizations/{org_id}/team/{team_id}/invitations.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org`stringRequired The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
`team_slug`stringRequired The slug of the team name.
Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`per_page`integer The number of results per page (max 100). Default: `30`
`page`integer Page number of the results to fetch. Default: `1`

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK

Code samples

get/orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}/invitations

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>"\
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/teams/TEAM_SLUG/invitations

Response

Status: 200

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "login": "monalisa",
    "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
    "email": "octocat@github.com",
    "role": "direct_member",
    "created_at": "2016-11-30T06:46:10-08:00",
    "failed_at": "",
    "failed_reason": "",
    "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"
  }
]

List team members

Works with GitHub Apps

Team members will include the members of child teams.

To list members in a team, the team must be visible to the authenticated user.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org`stringRequired The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
`team_slug`stringRequired The slug of the team name.
Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`role`string Filters members returned by their role in the team. Default: `all` Can be one of: `member`, `maintainer`, `all`
`per_page`integer The number of results per page (max 100). Default: `30`
`page`integer Page number of the results to fetch. Default: `1`

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK

Code samples

get/orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}/members

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>"\
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/teams/TEAM_SLUG/members

Response

Status: 200

[
  {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
    "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
    "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
    "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
    "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
    "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
    "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
    "type": "User",
    "site_admin": false
  }
]

Get team membership for a user

Works with GitHub Apps

Team members will include the members of child teams.

To get a user's membership with a team, the team must be visible to the authenticated user.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route GET /organizations/{org_id}/team/{team_id}/memberships/{username}.

Note: The response contains the state of the membership and the member's role.

The role for organization owners is set to maintainer. For more information about maintainer roles, see see Create a team.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org`stringRequired The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
`team_slug`stringRequired The slug of the team name.
`username`stringRequired The handle for the GitHub user account.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`404`	if user has no team membership

Code samples

get/orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}/memberships/{username}

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>"\
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/teams/TEAM_SLUG/memberships/USERNAME

Response if user is a team maintainer

Status: 200

{
  "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/memberships/octocat",
  "role": "maintainer",
  "state": "active"
}

Add or update team membership for a user

Works with GitHub Apps

Adds an organization member to a team. An authenticated organization owner or team maintainer can add organization members to a team.

Team synchronization is available for organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see GitHub's products in the GitHub Help documentation.

Note: When you have team synchronization set up for a team with your organization's identity provider (IdP), you will see an error if you attempt to use the API for making changes to the team's membership. If you have access to manage group membership in your IdP, you can manage GitHub team membership through your identity provider, which automatically adds and removes team members in an organization. For more information, see "Synchronizing teams between your identity provider and GitHub."

An organization owner can add someone who is not part of the team's organization to a team. When an organization owner adds someone to a team who is not an organization member, this endpoint will send an invitation to the person via email. This newly-created membership will be in the "pending" state until the person accepts the invitation, at which point the membership will transition to the "active" state and the user will be added as a member of the team.

If the user is already a member of the team, this endpoint will update the role of the team member's role. To update the membership of a team member, the authenticated user must be an organization owner or a team maintainer.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route PUT /organizations/{org_id}/team/{team_id}/memberships/{username}.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org`stringRequired The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
`team_slug`stringRequired The slug of the team name.
`username`stringRequired The handle for the GitHub user account.
Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
`role`string The role that this user should have in the team. Default: `member` Can be one of: `member`, `maintainer`

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`403`	Forbidden if team synchronization is set up
`422`	Unprocessable Entity if you attempt to add an organization to a team

Code samples

put/orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}/memberships/{username}

curl \
  -X PUT \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>"\
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/teams/TEAM_SLUG/memberships/USERNAME \
  -d '{"role":"maintainer"}'

Response if user's membership with team is now pending

Status: 200

{
  "url": "https://api.github.com/teams/1/memberships/octocat",
  "role": "member",
  "state": "pending"
}

Remove team membership for a user

Works with GitHub Apps

To remove a membership between a user and a team, the authenticated user must have 'admin' permissions to the team or be an owner of the organization that the team is associated with. Removing team membership does not delete the user, it just removes their membership from the team.

Team synchronization is available for organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see GitHub's products in the GitHub Help documentation.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route DELETE /organizations/{org_id}/team/{team_id}/memberships/{username}.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org`stringRequired The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
`team_slug`stringRequired The slug of the team name.
`username`stringRequired The handle for the GitHub user account.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`204`	No Content
`403`	Forbidden if team synchronization is set up

Code samples

delete/orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}/memberships/{username}

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>"\
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/teams/TEAM_SLUG/memberships/USERNAME

Response

Status: 204

List pending team invitations (Legacy)

Works with GitHub Apps

Deprecation Notice: This endpoint route is deprecated and will be removed from the Teams API. We recommend migrating your existing code to use the new List pending team invitations endpoint.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`team_id`integerRequired The unique identifier of the team.
Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`per_page`