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Artifact metadata

Use these endpoints to retrieve and manage metadata for artifacts in your organization. Artifact metadata provides information about build artifacts, their provenance, and related details.

Create artifact metadata storage record

Create metadata storage records for artifacts associated with an organization. This endpoint will create a new artifact storage record on behalf of any artifact matching the provided digest and associated with a repository owned by the organization.

Fine-grained access tokens for "Create artifact metadata storage record"

This endpoint works with the following fine-grained token types:

The fine-grained token must have the following permission set:

  • "Contents" repository permissions (write)

Parameters for "Create artifact metadata storage record"

Headers
Name, Type, Description
accept string

Setting to application/vnd.github+json is recommended.

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
org string Required

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
name string Required

The name of the artifact.

digest string Required

The digest of the artifact (algorithm:hex-encoded-digest).

artifact_url string

The URL where the artifact is stored.

path string

The path of the artifact.

registry_url string Required

The base URL of the artifact registry.

repository string

The repository name within the registry.

status string

The status of the artifact (e.g., active, inactive).

Default: active

Can be one of: active, eol, deleted

HTTP response status codes for "Create artifact metadata storage record"

Status codeDescription
200

Artifact metadata storage record stored successfully.

Code samples for "Create artifact metadata storage record"

Request example

post/orgs/{org}/artifacts/metadata/storage-record
curl -L \ -X POST \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \ https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/artifacts/metadata/storage-record \ -d '{"name":"libfoo-1.2.3","digest":"sha256:1bb1e949e55dcefc6353e7b36c8897d2a107d8e8dca49d4e3c0ea8493fc0bc72","artifact_url":"https://reg.example.com/artifactory/bar/libfoo-1.2.3","registry_url":"https://reg.example.com/artifactory/","repository":"bar","status":"active"}'

Artifact metadata storage record stored successfully.

Status: 200
{ "total_count": 1, "storage_records": [ { "name": "libfoo-1.2.3", "digest": "sha256:1bb1e949e55dcefc6353e7b36c8897d2a107d8e8dca49d4e3c0ea8493fc0bc72", "artifact_url": "https://reg.example.com/artifactory/bar/libfoo-1.2.3", "registry_url": "https://reg.example.com/artifactory/", "repository": "bar", "status": "active", "created_at": "2023-10-01T12:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2023-10-01T12:00:00Z" } ] }

List artifact storage records

List a collection of artifact storage records with a given subject digest that are associated with repositories owned by an organization.

The collection of storage records returned by this endpoint is filtered according to the authenticated user's permissions; if the authenticated user cannot read a repository, the attestations associated with that repository will not be included in the response. In addition, when using a fine-grained access token the content:read permission is required.

Fine-grained access tokens for "List artifact storage records"

This endpoint works with the following fine-grained token types:

The fine-grained token must have the following permission set:

  • "Contents" repository permissions (read)

Parameters for "List artifact storage records"

Headers
Name, Type, Description
accept string

Setting to application/vnd.github+json is recommended.

Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
org string Required

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

subject_digest string Required

The parameter should be set to the attestation's subject's SHA256 digest, in the form sha256:HEX_DIGEST.

HTTP response status codes for "List artifact storage records"

Status codeDescription
200

OK

Code samples for "List artifact storage records"

Request example

get/orgs/{org}/artifacts/{subject_digest}/metadata/storage-records
curl -L \ -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \ -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \ https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/artifacts/SUBJECT_DIGEST/metadata/storage-records

Response

Status: 200
{ "storage_records": [ { "name": "libfoo-1.2.3", "digest": "sha256:1bb1e949e55dcefc6353e7b36c8897d2a107d8e8dca49d4e3c0ea8493fc0bc72", "artifact_url": "https://reg.example.com/artifactory/bar/libfoo-1.2.3", "registry_url": "https://reg.example.com/artifactory/", "repository": "bar", "status": "active", "created_at": "2023-10-01T12:00:00Z", "updated_at": "2023-10-01T12:00:00Z" } ] }