Make a call to /repos/:owner/:repo and read the default_branch property value – this is the name of the default branch. See example response here: http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#get
According to graphql documentation there are more than one pagination model. GitHub is using complete connection model In this model you can traverse with adding after:”Y3Vyc29yOjEwMA==” to your search query. query { search(first: 100, after:”Y3Vyc29yOjEwMA==”, type:USER, query:”location:usa repos:>0 language:java”) { pageInfo { startCursor hasNextPage endCursor } userCount nodes { … on User { bio company … Read more
Make a request on https://api.github.com/repos/{username}/{repo}/commits?sha={branch}&per_page=1&page=1 Now just take the Link parameter of the response header and grab out the page count situated just before rel=”last” This page count is equal to the total number of commits in that branch! The trick was to use &per_page=1&page=1. It distributed 1 commit in 1 page. So, the total … Read more
After some digging, found it: query { repository(name: “repoName”, owner: “repoOwner”) { object(expression: “branch:path/to/file”) { … on Blob { text } } } } The argument passed to expression on the object field is actually a git revision expression suitable for rev-parse, so I guess you can have fun with it to do advanced querying. … Read more
You can install a Homebrew formula directly from a pull request by using brew install $raw_pull_requst_url, eg: brew install https://raw.github.com/ColinHebert/homebrew/538a99cc06a8f40b6ebcf2f4f8fd44d563c672cd/Library/Formula/emacs.rb For finding the pull request URL, there’s probably a better way, but I went to the pull request URL you linked, clicked on Files Changed, then on View File @ 9b22d42, then finally on Raw
Answers for 2019, Use GitHub API V4. First go to GitHub to apply for a token: https://help.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line. step 7, scopes select only read:user cUrl curl -H “Authorization: bearer token” -X POST -d ‘{“query”:”query {\n user(login: \”MeiK2333\”) {\n name\n contributionsCollection {\n contributionCalendar {\n colors\n totalContributions\n weeks {\n contributionDays {\n color\n contributionCount\n date\n weekday\n }\n firstDay\n }\n … Read more
Recently GitHub CLI released. So you can now use it instead. Just install it to your system (https://github.com/cli/cli#installation) The authenticate (it’s pretty simple) gh auth login After you logged in you can simply create a new gist by: gh gist create -d “my test gist” -f some_local_file.txt test_gist For more details you can use help: … Read more
GitHub seems to use their API to write the trending page and don’t present it back as a particular API. You need to use the Repository Search API. I’ve followed the examples on this page, which could solve your needs by: # We’ll use the `date` command to get the date for “7 days ago” … Read more
A canonical way is using the official Github Script actions. Don’t get confused, issues and PRs are the same for the GitHub API. 2020: on: # Trigger the workflow on push or pull request pull_request: branches: – master – develop jobs: comment: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: – uses: actions/github-script@v3 with: github-token: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}} script: | github.issues.createComment({ issue_number: … Read more