Release¶

GET /api/1/release/(sha1_git)/¶

Get information about a release in the archive. Releases are identified by sha1 checksums, compatible with Git tag identifiers. See swh.model.identifiers.release_identifier() in our data model module for details about how they are computed.

Request Headers:
Parameters:	sha1_git (string) – hexadecimal representation of the release sha1_git identifier
	Accept – the requested response content type, either `application/json` (default) or `application/yaml`
Response Headers:
	Content-Type – this depends on Accept header of request
Response JSON Object:
	author (object) – information about the author of the release date (string) – ISO representation of the release date (in UTC) id (string) – the release unique identifier message (string) – the message associated to the release name (string) – the name of the release target (string) – the target identifier of the release target_type (string) – the type of the target, can be either release, revision, content, directory target_url (string) – a link to the adequate api url based on the target type

Allowed HTTP Methods: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS

Status Codes:	200 OK – no error 400 Bad Request – an invalid sha1_git value has been provided 404 Not Found – requested release can not be found in the archive

Example:

https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/release/208f61cc7a5dbc9879ae6e5c2f95891e270f09ef/