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title: Labels
intro: 'Use the REST API to manage labels for repositories, issues and pull requests.'
versions:
  fpt: '*'
  ghes: '*'
  ghae: '*'
  ghec: '*'
topics:
  - API
miniTocMaxHeadingLevel: 3
---

## About labels

You can use the REST API to manage labels for a repository and add or remove labels to issues and pull requests. {% data reusables.pull_requests.issues-pr-shared-api %}