curl -X POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/settings/network-configurations' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "example-name",
  "network_settings_ids": [
    "example-network-settings-ids"
  ]
}'

# POST /orgs/{org}/settings/network-configurations (GitHub API)
Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization; GitHub token; required.
Request formats: application/json.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Create a hosted compute network configuration for an organization

## Critical Gotchas
* GitHub recommends an `Accept: application/vnd.github+json` header and an explicit `X-GitHub-Api-Version` header.
* Fine-grained tokens only authorize repositories and permissions selected when the token is created.

## cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/settings/network-configurations' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "example-name",
  "network_settings_ids": [
    "example-network-settings-ids"
  ]
}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| org | path | string | Yes | The organization name. The name is not case sensitive. |
| name | body | string | Yes | Name of the network configuration. Must be between 1 and 100 characters and m... |
| network_settings_ids | body | string[] | Yes | A list of identifiers of the network settings resources to use for the networ... |
| compute_service | body | string | No | The hosted compute service to use for the network configuration. |
| failover_network_settings_ids | body | string[] | No | A list of identifiers of the failover network settings resources to use for t... |
| failover_network_enabled | body | boolean | No | Indicates whether the failover network resource is enabled. |

## Response example
{"id":"123ABC456DEF789","name":"my-network-configuration"}

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POST

POST /orgs/{org}/settings/network-configurations — GitHub API

GitHub token (required); https://api.github.com

GitHub API

Create a hosted compute network configuration for an organization

Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <GITHUB_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

GitHub recommends an Accept: application/vnd.github+json header and an explicit X-GitHub-Api-Version header.

Fine-grained tokens only authorize repositories and permissions selected when the token is created.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/settings/network-configurations' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{  "name": "example-name",  "network_settings_ids": [    "example-network-settings-ids"  ]}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
org	path	string	Yes	The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
name	body	string	Yes	Name of the network configuration. Must be between 1 and 100 characters and may only contain upper and lowercase letters a-z, numbers 0-9, '.', '-', and '_'.
compute_service	body	string	No	The hosted compute service to use for the network configuration.
network_settings_ids	body	string[]	Yes	A list of identifiers of the network settings resources to use for the network configuration. Exactly one resource identifier must be specified in the list.
failover_network_settings_ids	body	string[]	No	A list of identifiers of the failover network settings resources to use for the network configuration. Exactly one resource identifier must be specified in the list.
failover_network_enabled	body	boolean	No	Indicates whether the failover network resource is enabled.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": "123ABC456DEF789",
  "name": "my-network-configuration",
  "compute_service": "none",
  "network_settings_ids": "123ABC456DEF789",
  "failover_network_settings_ids": "123ABC456DEF789",
  "failover_network_enabled": true,
  "created_on": "2024-04-26T11:31:07Z"
}

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