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Get the tag of a repository by tag name

GET
/repos/{owner}/{repo}/tags/{tag}
curl --request GET \
--url https://gitea.com/api/v1/repos/example/example/tags/example \
--header 'Authorization: Basic <credentials>'
owner
required
string

Owner of the repo

repo
required
string

Name of the repo

tag
required
string

Name of tag

Tag

Media typeapplication/json

Tag represents a repository tag

object
commit
CommitMeta contains meta information of a commit in terms of API.
object
created
string format: date-time
sha

SHA is the commit SHA hash

string
url

URL is the API URL for the commit

string
id

The ID (SHA) of the tag

string
message

The message associated with the tag

string
name

The name of the tag

string
tarball_url

The URL to download the tarball archive

string
zipball_url

The URL to download the zipball archive

string
Examplegenerated
{
"commit": {
"created": "2026-04-15T12:00:00Z",
"sha": "example",
"url": "example"
},
"id": "example",
"message": "example",
"name": "example",
"tarball_url": "example",
"zipball_url": "example"
}

APINotFound is a not found empty response

Media typeapplication/json