upload files to github directory using github api

Question

I want to upload files from my system to a directory in github repo using the api .Is there any api endpoint which allows me to do that.

Answer 1

You should use the GitHub CRUD API which wans introduced in .May 2013

It includes:

• File Create

  PUT /repos/:owner/:repo/contents/:path
  

• File Update

  PUT /repos/:owner/:repo/contents/:path
  

• File Delete

  DELETE /repos/:owner/:repo/contents/:path
  

Answer 2

There's deffinitly a way to do it. This is how I did it;

curl -i -X PUT -H ‘Authorization: token 9xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxe2’ -d
‘{“message”: “uploading a sample pdf”,
“content”:”bXkgbm……………………………..”
}’ https://api.github.com/repos/batman/toys/contents/sample.pdf

Where the content property is a base64 encoded string of characters. I used this tool to encode my pdf file. https://www.freeformatter.com/base64-encoder.html

Notice, "batman" is the owner, "toys" is my repo, "contents" has to be there by default, and sample.pdf would the name of the file you want to upload your file as. In short, stick to this format: /repos/:owner/:repo/contents/:path And you can run the identical step for any of these files: PNG (.png) GIF (.gif) JPEG (.jpg) Log files (.log) Microsoft Word (.docx), Powerpoint (.pptx), and Excel (.xlsx) documents Text files (.txt) PDFs (.pdf) ZIP (.zip, .gz)

Good luck. Btw, I have these same details added on here: http://www.simplexanswer.com/2019/05/github-api-how-to-upload-a-file/