This section of the documentation is intended to get you up-and-running with real-world GitHub API applications. We'll go over everything you need to know, from authentication to results manipulation to integrating results with other apps. Every tutorial will include a project, and each project will be saved and documented in our public platform-samples repository.
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Guides
Learn about getting started with the REST API, authentication, and how to use the REST API for a variety of tasks.
- Scripting with the REST API and JavaScript
- Scripting with the REST API and Ruby
- Discovering resources for a user
- Delivering deployments
- Rendering data as graphs
- Working with comments
- Building a CI server
- Using the REST API to interact with your Git database
- Using the REST API to interact with checks
- Encrypting secrets for the REST API