How to get list of PRIVATE repositories via api call

[funfunction]

How to get list of PRIVATE repositories via api call

Using this command, it only retrieves the list of PUBLIC repositories…
curl -H “Authorization: token MYTOKEN” https://api.github.com/users/USERNAME/repos

P.S.
My token has all the checkmarks select to enable all permissions, and I still cannot retrieve the list of private repos.

I also tried this and it didn’t work…
curl -H “Authorization: token MYTOKEN” https://api.github.com/users/USERNAME/repos
-d “{“visibility”:“private”}”

[ilia-cy]

I’m not sure this is the API you are looking for.
Try this one:

https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=user:USERNAME

Without credentials, you will receive all public repositories of the user.
With credentials you will also receive the private ones.

[vega0]

what credentials mean. What credentials?

[omkarsathe01]

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN" https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=user:USERNAME

here replace YOUR-TOKEN with credentials.

[010762612]

😘​

[vermakhushboo]

@ilia-cy What if I want to list only the repositories that GitHub app has access to? This means not including all public repos. Only those public repos that the user has given access to the installation.

[funfunction]

Thanks, that worked. It retrieves both public and private repos…

curl -H “Authorization: token MYTOKEN” https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=user:MYUSERNAME

[jonenst]

I’m looking for an API which returns repos for an owner (a user or an org). In the docs, the search api has
user:USERNAME and org:ORGNAME ( see https://docs.github.com/en/github/searching-for-information-on-github/searching-for-repositories#search-within-a-users-or-organizations-repositories )

In my tests, both return the same results (ie they work for user:ORGNAME and org:USERNAME in addtion to user:USERNAME and org:ORGNAME)

Is this intended ? Is it going to continue to work ?What’s the difference between the two ?

Maybe the keyword “owner” should be used when referring to something that can be a user or an org.

[jonenst]

Also
‘https://api.github.com/users/google/repos?per_page=100&page=11’ works
‘https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=user:google&per_page=100&page=11’ fails:

{
  "message": "Only the first 1000 search results are available",
  "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/v3/search/"
}

Could you improve (and maybe merge?)
https://api.github.com/users/XXX/repos or https://api.github.com/orgs/XXX/repos to return all the results ?
Thanks

[statusunknown418]

re opening this, it works with curl but not octokit which seems even weirder, this won't show private repos even while having authorization

const { data } = await octokit.request("GET /search/repositories", {
        q: `org:${selectedOrganization}`,
        headers: {
          authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
        },
      });

Update:

Looking at the request I can see that gh is not authenticating the user, no f** idea why, getting unauthenticated rate limits

[almo8800]

I couldn`t get private repositories while i was using the wrong link.
wrong: https:/api.github.com/users/USERNAME/repos
right: https:/api.github.com/user/repos [do not change user to your profile name!!!]

now api give me list of public and private repos

[notgabry]

thanks man

[renettarenula]

This is correct.

Though I was using the right endpoint, it was still returning only public repos because I didn't set the scope when authorizing via oauth:

So be sure to set the repo scope if the endpoint is not returning all repositories.

[amirSohel007]

it's not working for me.. can somebody help me ?

https:/api.github.com/user/repos Im using this endpoint with get method and passing token in header too.

[Rayykoto]

thanks sir!

[perfecto25]

is it possible to list private repos of other users?

Im a GH Enteprise admin at my company, Im creating a python script via GH API that shows all GH users

whenever a user leaves the company, I want to suspend the user, and also transfer his private repos to another organization called "ex-mployees" aka archive his private repos in case someone needs to access them

the current API shows only public repos for a user, unless I'm querying my own username,

headers = {'Authorization': f'token {token}'}
response = requests.get(f'{github_url}/users/{user}/repos', headers=headers)

not sure if its possible to show private repos for users other than myself.

[Jon104]

I'm trying to achieve the same thing, can't figure out how to list other users private repositories i was invited to collaborate...

[James-Bonner]

I'm in this situation too.
The docs imply that 'GET /user/repos' should return all repositories for which a user has accepted an invitation as a collaborator, but it only seems to return ones the user owns or are public. Doesn't even return private org repositories.