Update a repo label

PATCH/api/repos/{owner}/{repo}/labels/{label_id}

updateRepoLabel

Partial update: omitted fields are unchanged. A label id belonging to another repo answers 404, not 403.

Requires authentication using a bearer token or a session cookie — see tokens and scopes.

curl

curl -X PATCH 'https://neosource.dev/api/repos/OWNER/REPO/labels/LABEL_ID' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $NEOSOURCE_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'

fetch

fetch("https://neosource.dev/api/repos/OWNER/REPO/labels/LABEL_ID", {
  method: "PATCH",
  headers: {
    Authorization: "Bearer $NEOSOURCE_TOKEN",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({}),
});

Path parameters

ownerrequired: string
reporequired: string
label_idrequired: string

Request bodyrequired

application/json

UpdateLabelRequest

object

Partial label update. Every field is optional; omitted fields are left unchanged. The label's scope (repo vs team) is not updatable.

color: string | null
description: string | null
name: string | null

Responses

200Label updated

application/json

LabelResponse

object

colorrequired: string
created_atrequired: integerint64
descriptionrequired: string
label_idrequired: string
namerequired: string
repo_id: string | null
team_id: string | null

Standard errors

Bodies documented once for the whole API — see standard errors.

400Bad Request — one of: invalid_input
401Authentication required
403Forbidden — one of: forbidden
404Not Found — one of: not_found
409Conflict — one of: already_exists, conflict, non_fast_forward
423Locked — one of: busy
429Rate limited — retry after the `Retry-After` header
500Internal server error
503Service temporarily unavailable / at capacity — retry after the `Retry-After` header
504Gateway timeout — the request exceeded the server's handling budget