curl -X GET 'https://api.github.com/repos/example-owner/example-repo/rulesets/rule-suites?ref=example-ref&time_period=day&actor_name=example-actor-name&rule_suite_result=all&evaluate_status=all&per_page=30&page=1' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10'

# GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/rulesets/rule-suites (GitHub API)
Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization; GitHub token; required.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> List repository rule suites

## 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 GET 'https://api.github.com/repos/example-owner/example-repo/rulesets/rule-suites?ref=example-ref&time_period=day&actor_name=example-actor-name&rule_suite_result=all&evaluate_status=all&per_page=30&page=1' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| owner | path | string | Yes | The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive. |
| repo | path | string | Yes | The name of the repository without the `.git` extension. The name is not case... |
| ref | query | string | No | The name of the ref. Cannot contain wildcard characters. Optionally prefix wi... |
| time_period | query | string | No | The time period to filter by.  For example, `day` will filter for rule suites... |
| actor_name | query | string | No | The handle for the GitHub user account to filter on. When specified, only rul... |
| rule_suite_result | query | string | No | The rule suite results to filter on. When specified, only suites with this re... |
| evaluate_status | query | string | No | The evaluate status to filter on. When specified, only rule suites resulting... |
| per_page | query | integer | No | The number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "[Using p... |
Other params: page

## Response example
[{"id":0,"actor_id":0}]

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GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/rulesets/rule-suites — GitHub API

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GitHub API

List repository rule suites

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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 GET 'https://api.github.com/repos/example-owner/example-repo/rulesets/rule-suites?ref=example-ref&time_period=day&actor_name=example-actor-name&rule_suite_result=all&evaluate_status=all&per_page=30&page=1' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
owner	path	string	Yes	The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.
repo	path	string	Yes	The name of the repository without the `.git` extension. The name is not case sensitive.
ref	query	string	No	The name of the ref. Cannot contain wildcard characters. Optionally prefix with `refs/heads/` to limit to branches or `refs/tags/` to limit to tags. Omit the prefix to search across all refs. When specified, only rule evaluations triggered for this ref will be returned.
time_period	query	string	No	The time period to filter by. For example, `day` will filter for rule suites that occurred in the past 24 hours, and `week` will filter for rule suites that occurred in the past 7 days (168 hours).
actor_name	query	string	No	The handle for the GitHub user account to filter on. When specified, only rule evaluations triggered by this actor will be returned.
rule_suite_result	query	string	No	The rule suite results to filter on. When specified, only suites with this result will be returned.
evaluate_status	query	string	No	The evaluate status to filter on. When specified, only rule suites resulting from rulesets with the specified evaluate status will be returned. - `all` - all rule suites will be returned. - `active` - only rule suites resulting from rulesets in active (non-evaluate) mode will be returned. - `evaluate` - only rule suites resulting from rulesets in evaluate mode will be returned.
per_page	query	integer	No	The number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "[Using pagination in the REST API](https://docs.github.com/rest/using-the-rest-api/using-pagination-in-the-rest-api)."
page	query	integer	No	The page number of the results to fetch. For more information, see "[Using pagination in the REST API](https://docs.github.com/rest/using-the-rest-api/using-pagination-in-the-rest-api)."

Response 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 0,
    "actor_id": 0,
    "actor_name": "string",
    "before_sha": "string",
    "after_sha": "string",
    "ref": "string",
    "repository_id": 0,
    "repository_name": "string",
    "pushed_at": "2011-01-26T19:06:43Z",
    "result": "pass",
    "evaluation_result": "pass"
  }
]

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