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.

Parameters

• sha1_git (string) – hexadecimal representation of the release sha1_git identifier

Request Headers

• 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

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/