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GraphQL API

To create integrations, retrieve data, and automate your workflows, use the GitHub GraphQL API. The GitHub GraphQL API offers more precise and flexible queries than the GitHub REST API.

Guides

Forming calls with GraphQL

Learn how to authenticate to the GraphQL API, then learn how to create and run queries and mutations.

Introduction to GraphQL

Learn useful terminology and concepts for using the GitHub GraphQL API.

Using the Explorer

You can run queries on real GitHub data using the GraphQL Explorer, an integrated development environment in your browser that includes docs, syntax highlighting, and validation errors.

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Explorer

Public schema

Schema previews

Using the GraphQL API for Discussions

What's new

OpenAPI Description of REST API is now 3.1 compliant

Improvements to the code scanning API

API support for managing labels of Actions self-hosted runners

Guides

Migrating from REST to GraphQL

Learn best practices and considerations for migrating from GitHub's REST API to GitHub's GraphQL API.

Managing enterprise accounts

You can manage your enterprise account and the organizations it owns with the GraphQL API.

Using global node IDs

You can get global node IDs of objects via the REST API and use them in GraphQL operations.

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