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The REST API is now versioned. For more information, see "About API versioning."

GitHub Actions Cache

Use the REST API to interact with the cache for repositories in GitHub Actions.

About the cache in GitHub Actions

You can use the REST API to query and manage the cache for repositories in GitHub Actions. You can also install a GitHub CLI extension to manage your caches from the command line. For more information, see "Caching dependencies to speed up workflows."

Get GitHub Actions cache usage for an organization

Works with GitHub Apps

Gets the total GitHub Actions cache usage for an organization. The data fetched using this API is refreshed approximately every 5 minutes, so values returned from this endpoint may take at least 5 minutes to get updated. You must authenticate using an access token with the read:org scope to use this endpoint. GitHub Apps must have the organization_admistration:read permission to use this endpoint.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
acceptstring

Setting to application/vnd.github+json is recommended.

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
orgstringRequired

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

HTTP response status codes

Status codeDescription
200

OK

Code samples

get/orgs/{org}/actions/cache/usage