Question

A platform engineer is building an internal dashboard that must automatically archive the complete log bundle (a ZIP of all job logs) for every completed workflow run in a repository. They want to fetch these logs programmatically rather than clicking through the GitHub UI. Which REST API request retrieves the downloadable log archive for a specific workflow run?

Accepted Answer

GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run_id}/logs, which returns a 302 redirect to a short-lived URL for the ZIP archive of the run's logs

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GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run_id}, then read the logs_url field which contains the raw plain-text logs inline

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GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/artifacts, which lists all logs alongside uploaded build artifacts for download

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POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/actions/runs/{run_id}/logs to generate and stream the log archive as the response body