diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c830377..0dd1685 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: gh
 Title: 'GitHub' 'API'
-Version: 1.4.1.9000
+Version: 1.4.1.9001
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Gábor", "Csárdi", , "csardi.gabor@gmail.com", role = c("cre", "ctb")),
     person("Jennifer", "Bryan", role = "aut"),
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Suggests:
     rprojroot,
     spelling,
     testthat (>= 3.0.0),
+    vctrs,
     withr
 VignetteBuilder: 
     knitr
@@ -37,4 +38,4 @@ Config/testthat/edition: 3
 Encoding: UTF-8
 Language: en-US
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
-RoxygenNote: 7.3.1.9000
+RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index bc79b8e..e0eefc3 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ S3method(format,gh_pat)
 S3method(print,gh_pat)
 S3method(print,gh_response)
 S3method(str,gh_pat)
+S3method(vctrs::vec_cast,list.gh_response)
+S3method(vctrs::vec_ptype2,gh_response.gh_response)
 export(gh)
 export(gh_first)
 export(gh_gql)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index e3191de..f648213 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 # gh (development version)
 
+* `gh_response` class now works more nicely with tidyr rectangling (@tanho63, #161)
 * `gh()` now uses a cache provided by httr2. This cache lives in `tools::R_user_dir("gh", "cache")`, maxes out at 100 MB, and can be disabled by setting `options(gh_cache = FALSE)` (#203).
 * Removes usage of mockery (@tanho63, #197)
 
+
 # gh 1.4.1
 
 * `gh_next()`, `gh_prev()`, `gh_first()` and `gh_last()`
diff --git a/R/gh_response.R b/R/gh_response.R
index a9d47e9..fd5638e 100644
--- a/R/gh_response.R
+++ b/R/gh_response.R
@@ -42,3 +42,17 @@ gh_process_response <- function(resp, gh_req) {
   }
   res
 }
+
+# Add vctrs methods that strip attributes from gh_response when combining,
+# enabling rectangling via unnesting etc
+# See <https://github.com/r-lib/gh/issues/161> for more details
+#' @exportS3Method vctrs::vec_ptype2
+vec_ptype2.gh_response.gh_response <- function(x, y, ...) {
+  list()
+}
+
+#' @exportS3Method vctrs::vec_cast
+vec_cast.list.gh_response <- function(x, to, ...) {
+  attributes(x) <- NULL
+  x
+}
diff --git a/inst/WORDLIST b/inst/WORDLIST
index 4fb08fa..e2305b8 100644
--- a/inst/WORDLIST
+++ b/inst/WORDLIST
@@ -19,5 +19,8 @@ keyring
 macOS
 pre
 programmatically
+rectangling
 repo
+tidyr
 usethis
+vctrs
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-gh_response.R b/tests/testthat/test-gh_response.R
index 6ae8c0d..633132c 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-gh_response.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-gh_response.R
@@ -83,3 +83,14 @@ test_that("output file is not overwritten on error", {
   expect_equal(readLines(tmp), "foo")
   expect_true(!is.null((err$response_content)))
 })
+
+test_that("gh_response objects can be combined via vctrs #161",{
+  skip_on_cran()
+  skip_if_not_installed("vctrs")
+  user_1 <- gh("/users", .limit = 1)
+  user_2 <- gh("/users", .limit = 1,)
+  user_vec <- vctrs::vec_c(user_1, user_2)
+  user_df <- vctrs::vec_rbind(user_1[[1]], user_2[[1]])
+  expect_equal(length(user_vec), 2)
+  expect_equal(nrow(user_df), 2)
+})