This subject folder contains the code for the Article API endpoints:

• /api/pagelist
• /api/article/body
• /api/article/meta

Related: The /llms.txt endpoint (middleware in src/frame/middleware/llms-txt.ts) provides AI-friendly content discovery using these APIs.

Article API endpoints allow consumers to query GitHub Docs for listings of current articles, and for specific article information.

The /api/article/meta endpoint powers hovercards, which provide a preview for internal links on <docs.github.com>.

The /api/article endpoints return information about a page by pathname.

api/article/meta is highly cached, in JSON format.

For internal folks ask in the Docs Engineering slack channel.

For open source folks, please open a discussion in the public repository.

Get article metadata and content in a single object. Equivalent to calling /article/meta concatenated with /article/body.

Parameters:

• pathname (string) - Article path (e.g. '/en/get-started/article-name')

Returns: (object) - JSON object with article metadata and content (meta and body keys)

Throws:

• (Error): 403 - If the article body cannot be retrieved. Reason is given in the error message.
• (Error): 400 - If pathname parameter is invalid.
• (Error): 404 - If the path is valid, but the page couldn't be resolved.

Example:

❯ curl -s "https://docs.github.com/api/article?pathname=/en/get-started/start-your-journey/about-github-and-git"
{
  "meta": {
    "title": "About GitHub and Git",
    "intro": "You can use GitHub and Git to collaborate on work.",
    "product": "Get started"
  },
  "body": "## About GitHub\n\nGitHub is a cloud-based platform where you can store, share, and work together with others to write code.\n\nStoring your code in a \"repository\" on GitHub allows you to:\n\n* **Showcase or share** your work.\n [...]"
}

Get the contents of an article's body.

Parameters:

• pathname (string) - Article path (e.g. '/en/get-started/article-name')

Returns: (string) - Article body content in markdown format.

Throws:

• (Error): 403 - If the article body cannot be retrieved. Reason is given in the error message.
• (Error): 400 - If pathname parameter is invalid.
• (Error): 404 - If the path is valid, but the page couldn't be resolved.

Example:

❯ curl -s https://docs.github.com/api/article/body\?pathname=/en/get-started/start-your-journey/about-github-and-git
## About GitHub

GitHub is a cloud-based platform where you can store, share, and work together with others to write code.

Storing your code in a "repository" on GitHub allows you to:
[...]

Get metadata about an article.

Parameters:

• pathname (string) - Article path (e.g. '/en/get-started/article-name')

Returns: (object) - JSON object containing article metadata with title, intro, and product information.

Throws:

• (Error): 400 - If pathname parameter is invalid.
• (Error): 404 - If the path is valid, but the page couldn't be resolved.

Example:

❯ curl -s "https://docs.github.com/api/article/meta?pathname=/en/get-started/start-your-journey/about-github-and-git"
{
  "title": "About GitHub and Git",
  "intro": "You can use GitHub and Git to collaborate on work.",
  "product": "Get started",
  "breadcrumbs": [
    {
      "href": "/en/get-started",
      "title": "Get started"
    },
    {
      "href": "/en/get-started/start-your-journey",
      "title": "Start your journey"
    },
    {
      "href": "/en/get-started/start-your-journey/about-github-and-git",
      "title": "About GitHub and Git"
    }
  ]
}

A list of pages available for a fully qualified path containing the target language and product version.

Parameters:

• lang (string) - Path parameter for language code (e.g. 'en')
• productVersion (string) - Path parameter for product version (e.g. 'free-pro-team@latest')

Returns: (string) - List of paths matching the language and version

Throws:

• (Error): 400 - If language or version parameters are invalid. Reason is given in the error message.

Example:

❯ curl -s https://docs.github.com/api/pagelist/en/free-pro-team@latest
/en
/en/search
/en/get-started
/en/get-started/start-your-journey
/en/get-started/start-your-journey/about-github-and-git
[...]