GitHub API v3: Determine if user is an Owner of an Organization
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Solution
There is currently no easy way to check if a user is in the owners team. Thanks for the cool feature suggestion, though! ;)
A hacky workaround would involve performing a non-destructive operation which only owners are allowed to do. If the operation succeeds - the authenticated user is an owner.
For example, you could try editing the organization's settings by sending an empty JSON hash:
$ curl -v -X PATCH -d '{}' https://api.github.com/orgs/:org?access_token=TOKEN
If this returns a 200 status code, the user is an owner. A 404 status code signals otherwise.
Hopefully we can provide a more elegant solution in the future.
Problem
It's easy to determine if a User is a member of a Team if you know the `id`: ``` GET /teams/:id/members/:user ``` But how can one easily determine the ID of the special "Owners" team that every Organization has? As far as I can tell, the only way is to retrieve a full list of all Teams (which I assume may be multiple pages?) and walk through them until you find one with the name "Owners". This is doable of course, but it's uncharacteristically inconvenient for GitHub's otherwise fantastic API. ;) For what it's worth, I've tried the following (with no luck): ``` GET /orgs/:organization/teams?name=Owners # Lists all teams GET /orgs/:organization/owners # 404 ``` Just to be clear, I've made sure to use a token associated with the user that owns the organization in question, so there shouldn't be any authorization issues.