# Get status checks protection

From **GitHub v3 REST API**.

`GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/branches/{branch}/protection/required_status_checks`

Protected branches are available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see [GitHub's products](https://docs.github.com/github/getting-started-with-github/githubs-products) in the GitHub Help documentation.

## Parameters

### `owner`

- Location: path
- Required: true
- Type: `string`

### `repo`

- Location: path
- Required: true
- Type: `string`

### `branch`

- Location: path
- Required: true
- Type: `string`

The name of the branch.

## Responses

### `200`

Response

### `application/json`

- Type: `object`

Status Check Policy

```json
{
  "contexts": [
    "continuous-integration/travis-ci"
  ],
  "contexts_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/branches/master/protection/required_status_checks/contexts",
  "strict": true,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/branches/master/protection/required_status_checks"
}
```

```json
{"description":"Status Check Policy","properties":{"contexts":{"example":["continuous-integration/travis-ci"],"items":{"type":"string"},"type":"array"},"contexts_url":{"example":"https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/branches/master/protection/required_status_checks/contexts","format":"uri","type":"string"},"strict":{"example":true,"type":"boolean"},"url":{"example":"https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/branches/master/protection/required_status_checks","format":"uri","type":"string"}},"required":["url","contexts_url","strict","contexts"],"title":"Status Check Policy","type":"object"}
```

### `404`

Resource not found

### `application/json`

- Type: `object`

Basic Error

```json
{"description":"Basic Error","properties":{"documentation_url":{"type":"string"},"message":{"type":"string"},"status":{"type":"string"},"url":{"type":"string"}},"title":"Basic Error","type":"object"}
```

## Request examples

### cURL

```shell
curl --request GET \
  --url {protocol}://{hostname}/api/v3/repos/{owner}/{repo}/branches/{branch}/protection/required_status_checks
```