GitHub/CLI/gh/api

• GitHub CLI | Take GitHub to the command line

  • gh api <endpoint> [flags]

  • Makes an authenticated HTTP request to the GitHub API and prints the response.
  • The endpoint argument should either be a path of a GitHub API v3 endpoint, or graphql to access the GitHub API v4.

  • Notable Flags

    • GitHub/CLI/gh/api/-q aka GitHub/CLI/gh/api/--jq

  • Examples

    • list all repos for a user - works for me

    • # list all repositories for a user
      $ gh api graphql --paginate -f query='
        query($endCursor: String) {
          viewer {
            repositories(first: 100, after: $endCursor) {
              nodes { nameWithOwner }
              pageInfo {
                hasNextPage
                endCursor
              }
            }
          }
        }
      '