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title: Repository invitations
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shortTitle: Invitations
intro: >-
  Use the REST API to view and manage invitations to collaborate on a
  repository.
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topics:
  - API
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## About repository invitations

You can view and manage invitations to collaborate on a repository. The invited users (or external services on behalf of invited users) can choose to accept or decline the invitations.

To add a user as a collaborator, use the Collaborators endpoints instead. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/rest/collaborators/collaborators#add-a-repository-collaborator)."

Note that the `repo:invite` [OAuth scope](/apps/oauth-apps/building-oauth-apps/scopes-for-oauth-apps) grants targeted
access to invitations **without** also granting access to repository code, while the
`repo` scope grants permission to code as well as invitations.

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