POST

Try POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/dispatches — GitHub API

GitHub playground

Create a repository dispatch event

Credentials

GitHub token · sent as Authorization

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Headers

Accept · fixedX-GitHub-Api-Version · fixed

Path

owner · required · string The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive. repo · required · string The name of the repository without the `.git` extension. The name is not case sensitive.

Body application/json

2 body fields

event_type · required · string — A custom webhook event name. Must be 100 characters or fewer.
client_payload · optional · object — JSON payload with extra information about the webhook event that your action or workflow may use. The maximum number of top-level properties is 10. The total size of the JSON payload must be less than 64KB.