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GitHub Gitignore Templates API

The GitHub Gitignore Templates API is a REST interface that lets you discover and fetch canonical .gitignore templates maintained by GitHub, so you can programmatically create ignore files tailored to specific languages, frameworks, IDEs, or operating systems. It provides endpoints to list all available template names and to retrieve the full content of a chosen template (for example, Node, Python, macOS, or VisualStudio) via GET /gitignore/templates and GET /gitignore/templates/{name}.

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Documentation

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/gitignore

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OpenAPI

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/refs/heads/main/openapi/github-gitignore-templates-api-openapi.yml