Using Copilot chat API programatically

[MonicaNegi]

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Hi Team,
Can I call Copilot chat API programmatically i.e. from my Python or Java code. I don't find any documentation for this

[codermarcos]

Yes, I'm curious about that as well. 🤔

There is a oficial documentation for the Management API, which allows you to manage seats for an organization. However, I haven't found any official documentation for Chat, Autocomplete, or similar features.

I did come across an unofficial Python project that provides some insights into the endpoint and necessary payload, but it's not ideal since there's no official API, leaving us uncertain about the possibilities.

In addition there are the same question or at least related here

• How can i get the copilot API for my web app? #109309
• Copilot API documentation #64719

And in another sources:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76741410/how-to-invoke-github-copilot-programmatically
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78119012/can-i-call-github-copilot-using-apis?noredirect=1&lq=1

[mortalis13]

If you check other repositories of the user owning the mentioned copilot-api project, you can find some more examples of direct API calls, like /chat/completions in freegpt, which gives a bit better response than the plain Codex completions, which is more for inline completions, like when you type some code in an editor.

Also in a fork of the same copilot-api repository I found some changes that use /chat/completions.
And the main project owner has a blog in which he describes some investigations on this topic...

[Eyescreaman]

Yes，I also want this feautre. Please Github Copilot team think about that.
I think there are many development want to use copilot chat api programatically.

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[ahdevx]

Just had some luck with this as a workaround:

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/using-github-copilot/using-github-copilot-in-the-command-line