Team synchronization - GitHub Docs

The Team synchronization API allows you to manage connections between GitHub teams and external identity provider (IdP) groups.

About the Team synchronization API

To use this API, the authenticated user must be a team maintainer or an owner of the organization associated with the team. The token you use to authenticate will also need to be authorized for use with your IdP (SSO) provider. For more information, see "Authorizing a personal access token for use with a SAML single sign-on organization."

You can manage GitHub team members through your IdP with team synchronization. Team synchronization must be enabled to use the Team Synchronization API. For more information, see "Synchronizing teams between your identity provider and GitHub."

Note: The Team Synchronization API cannot be used with Enterprise Managed Users. To learn more about managing an organization with managed users, see "External groups API".

List IdP groups for an organization

Works with GitHub Apps

Team synchronization is available for organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see GitHub's products in the GitHub Help documentation.

List IdP groups available in an organization. You can limit your page results using the per_page parameter. GitHub generates a url-encoded page token using a cursor value for where the next page begins. For more information on cursor pagination, see "Offset and Cursor Pagination explained."

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org`stringRequired The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`per_page`integer The number of results per page (max 100). Default: `30`
`page`string Page token

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK

Code samples

get/orgs/{org}/team-sync/groups

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/team-sync/groups

Response

Status: 200

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "group_id": "123",
      "group_name": "Octocat admins",
      "group_description": "The people who configure your octoworld."
    },
    {
      "group_id": "456",
      "group_name": "Octocat docs members",
      "group_description": "The people who make your octoworld come to life."
    }
  ]
}

List IdP groups for a team

Team synchronization is available for organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see GitHub's products in the GitHub Help documentation.

List IdP groups connected to a team on GitHub.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route GET /organizations/{org_id}/team/{team_id}/team-sync/group-mappings.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`org`stringRequired The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
`team_slug`stringRequired The slug of the team name.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK

Code samples

get/orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}/team-sync/group-mappings

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/teams/TEAM_SLUG/team-sync/group-mappings

Response

Status: 200

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "group_id": "123",
      "group_name": "Octocat admins",
      "group_description": "The people who configure your octoworld."
    },
    {
      "group_id": "456",
      "group_name": "Octocat docs members",
      "group_description": "The people who make your octoworld come to life."
    }
  ]
}

Create or update IdP group connections

Team synchronization is available for organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see GitHub's products in the GitHub Help documentation.

Creates, updates, or removes a connection between a team and an IdP group. When adding groups to a team, you must include all new and existing groups to avoid replacing existing groups with the new ones. Specifying an empty groups array will remove all connections for a team.

Note: You can also specify a team by org_id and team_id using the route PATCH /organizations/{org_id}/team/{team_id}/team-sync/group-mappings.

Parameters

Headers

Name, Type, Description

acceptstring

Setting to application/vnd.github.v3+json is recommended.

Path parameters

Name, Type, Description

orgstringRequired

The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.

team_slugstringRequired

The slug of the team name.

Body parameters

Name, Type, Description

groupsarray of objects

The IdP groups you want to connect to a GitHub team. When updating, the new groups object will replace the original one. You must include any existing groups that you don't want to remove.

Properties of thegroupsitems

Name, Type, Description
`group_id`stringRequired ID of the IdP group.
`group_name`stringRequired Name of the IdP group.
`group_description`stringRequired Description of the IdP group.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK

Code samples

patch/orgs/{org}/teams/{team_slug}/team-sync/group-mappings

curl \
  -X PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/teams/TEAM_SLUG/team-sync/group-mappings \
  -d '{"groups":[{"group_id":"123","group_name":"Octocat admins","group_description":"string"}]}'

Response

Status: 200

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "group_id": "123",
      "group_name": "Octocat admins",
      "group_description": "The people who configure your octoworld."
    },
    {
      "group_id": "456",
      "group_name": "Octocat docs members",
      "group_description": "The people who make your octoworld come to life."
    }
  ]
}

List IdP groups for a team (Legacy)

Deprecation Notice: This endpoint route is deprecated and will be removed from the Teams API. We recommend migrating your existing code to use the new List IdP groups for a team endpoint.

Team synchronization is available for organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see GitHub's products in the GitHub Help documentation.

List IdP groups connected to a team on GitHub.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`team_id`integerRequired The unique identifier of the team.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`403`	Forbidden
`404`	Resource not found

Code samples

get/teams/{team_id}/team-sync/group-mappings

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/teams/TEAM_ID/team-sync/group-mappings

Response

Status: 200

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "group_id": "123",
      "group_name": "Octocat admins",
      "group_description": "The people who configure your octoworld."
    },
    {
      "group_id": "456",
      "group_name": "Octocat docs members",
      "group_description": "The people who make your octoworld come to life."
    }
  ]
}

Create or update IdP group connections (Legacy)

Deprecation Notice: This endpoint route is deprecated and will be removed from the Teams API. We recommend migrating your existing code to use the new Create or update IdP group connections endpoint.

Team synchronization is available for organizations using GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see GitHub's products in the GitHub Help documentation.

Parameters

Headers

Name, Type, Description

acceptstring

Setting to application/vnd.github.v3+json is recommended.

Path parameters

Name, Type, Description

team_idintegerRequired

The unique identifier of the team.

Body parameters

Name, Type, Description

groupsarray of objectsRequired

The IdP groups you want to connect to a GitHub team. When updating, the new groups object will replace the original one. You must include any existing groups that you don't want to remove.

Properties of thegroupsitems

Name, Type, Description
`group_id`stringRequired ID of the IdP group.
`group_name`stringRequired Name of the IdP group.
`group_description`stringRequired Description of the IdP group.
`id`string
`name`string
`description`string

synced_atstring

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`403`	Forbidden
`422`	Validation failed

Code samples

patch/teams/{team_id}/team-sync/group-mappings

curl \
  -X PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  https://api.github.com/teams/TEAM_ID/team-sync/group-mappings \
  -d '{"groups":[{"group_id":"123","group_name":"Octocat admins","description":"The people who configure your octoworld.","group_description":"string"}]}'

Response

Status: 200

{
  "groups": [
    {
      "group_id": "123",
      "group_name": "Octocat admins",
      "group_description": "The people who configure your octoworld."
    }
  ]
}