Is it possible to get commits history for one file in github api?

Question

I would like to get all commit messages for separate file in github REST api. But all I got - only to get all commits for separate branch. Then I tried to get following:

http://api.github.com/users/<username>/<project>/commits/<branch>/<path/to/file>

But that didn't help also. Is this at least possible?

Answer 1

Try this (as described in the API docs here):

http://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/commits?path=PATH_TO_FILE

e.g.

https://api.github.com/repos/izuzak/pmrpc/commits?path=README.markdown

Answer 2

Using GraphQL API v4, for a file on the default branch, it would be :

{
  repository(owner: "izuzak", name: "pmrpc") {
    defaultBranchRef{
      target {
        ...on Commit{
            history(first:100,path: "README.markdown"){
            nodes {
              author {
                email
              }
              message
              oid
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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