How to use curl to access the github graphql API

Question

After referring this guide I needed to access the github graphql by using curl for a testing purpose. I tried this simple command

Answer 1

You just need to escape the double quotes that are inside the JSON as the query

$ curl -i -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "Authorization: bearer myGithubAccessToken" -X POST -d '{"query": "query {repository(owner: \"wso2\", name: \"product-is\") {description}}"}' https://api.github.com/graphql