github - Determine a collaborator's permissions (to an organization repos) via the api?

Question

In a repos that belongs to an organization (as opposed to an individual), collaborators are members of "teams", and teams can have three different kinds of permissions:

• Pull Only
• Push & Pull
• Push, Pull, & Administrative

I can see a list of collaborators on a repos like this:

GET /repos/:owner/:repo/collaborators

...but it does not tell me what type of permissions a collaborator has.

In this particular case, I am one of the collaborators; I do not own the repository.

Is there a way to programmatically determine the type of collaborator permission I have?

Answer 1

If you want to check whether you have push access to a GitHub repo, you can use the repo endpoint:

GET /repos/:owner/:repo

If your request includes your authorization information (either including your account credentials or an OAuth access token), the permissions field will give you the information you're looking for:

{ 'admin': False, 'push': False, 'pull': True }