Question

I am trying to retrieve some blob information using github rest api. Being exactly http://develop.github.com/p/object.html the blob/show/:user/:repo/:tree_sha/:path
I get problems when requesting a file that is in a sub folder.

for example:

http://github.com/api/v2/xml/blob/show/ user / repository / *tree_shar* /folder/subfolder/file.htm

http://github.com/api/v2/xml/blob/show/alexanderbeletsky/blog.beletsky.net/f79e40c279db8f02d1ecec263305520b880261a3/Linkedin/Summary.htm

doesnt work.

how should the :path look?

Answer 1

Your request looks just fine and you were using the :path variable correctly. But you used the wrong SHA. The SHA you used is from a commit. You need to use a tree SHA. You also need to make sure to use a tree SHA where the file Linkedin/Summary.htm exists. The correct SHA is: b0215ec2989369ad39f81e11ecdd29ddf2be83c8

And the full request:

https://github.com/api/v2/xml/blob/show/alexanderbeletsky/blog.beletsky.net/b0215ec2989369ad39f81e11ecdd29ddf2be83c8/Linkedin/Summary.htm

Edit: I totally forgot to tell how to get the tree SHA: First I checked out your repo from github:

git clone https://github.com/alexanderbeletsky/blog.beletsky.net.git

Then I checked the most recent commit of Linkedin/Summary.htm:

git log -n 1 --pretty=raw Linkedin/Summary.htm
commit 93318187799f4b18662954519e7367ad0861924e
tree b0215ec2989369ad39f81e11ecdd29ddf2be83c8
parent 32c30665d5d1c9ff14ada1565b16f9019ebe2dcf
author alexander.beletsky <[e-mail]> 1298272994 +0200
committer alexander.beletsky <[e-mail]> 1298272994 +0200

And there it was: tree b0215ec2989369ad39f81e11ecdd29ddf2be83c8