octokit.rest

Get a review comment for a pull request

Provides details for a review comment.

comfort-fade Preview

Multi-line comments in a pull request diff is currently available for developers to preview. During the preview period, these response fields may change without advance notice. See the blog post for more information.

To create multi-line comments or see multi-line comments with the new supported fields during the preview period, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.comfort-fade-preview+json

To show multi-line comment-supported fields in the response, use the comfort-fade preview header and the line parameter.

If you use the comfort-fade preview header, your response will show:

If you don't use the comfort-fade preview header, multi-line and single-line comments will appear the same way in the response with a single position attribute. Your response will show:

squirrel-girl Preview

An additional reactions object in the issue comment payload is currently available for developers to preview. During the preview period, the APIs may change without advance notice. Please see the blog post for full details.

To access the API you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.squirrel-girl-preview

The reactions key will have the following payload where url can be used to construct the API location for listing and creating reactions.

Parameters

string The token will be passed in the authorization header.

string

string

integer comment_id parameter

Request

GET https://api.github.com/repos///pulls/comments/
authorization: bearer undefined
accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json
user-agent: octokit.rest

Example Response

Status: 200
{
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/comments/1",
  "pull_request_review_id": 42,
  "id": 10,
  "node_id": "MDI0OlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0UmV2aWV3Q29tbWVudDEw",
  "diff_hunk": "@@ -16,33 +16,40 @@ public class Connection : IConnection...",
  "path": "file1.txt",
  "position": 1,
  "original_position": 4,
  "commit_id": "6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
  "original_commit_id": "9c48853fa3dc5c1c3d6f1f1cd1f2743e72652840",
  "in_reply_to_id": 8,
  "user": {
    "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
  },
  "body": "Great stuff!",
  "created_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-04-14T16:00:49Z",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1#discussion-diff-1",
  "pull_request_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1",
  "author_association": "NONE",
  "_links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/comments/1"
    },
    "html": {
      "href": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/pull/1#discussion-diff-1"
    },
    "pull_request": {
      "href": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/pulls/1"
    }
  },
  "start_line": 1,
  "original_start_line": 1,
  "start_side": "RIGHT",
  "line": 2,
  "original_line": 2,
  "side": "RIGHT"
}

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