How do I make an API call to GitHub for a user's pinned repositories?

Question

On GitHub, a user can have pinned repositories.

There\'s also the Repositories section of the API describing how to make requests that involve repos. You can also ge

Answer 1

You can get pinned repository using Github GraphQL API :

{
  repositoryOwner(login: "bertrandmartel") {
    ... on User {
      pinnedRepositories(first:6) {
        edges {
          node {
            name
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Try it in the explorer

You can request it with curl with :

curl -H "Authorization: bearer TOKEN" --data-binary @- https://api.github.com/graphql <

You can parse the JSON output with jq JSON parser :

username=bertrandmartel
curl -s -H "Authorization: bearer TOKEN" \
     -d '{ "query": "query { repositoryOwner(login: \"'"$username"'\") { ... on User { pinnedRepositories(first:6) { edges { node { name } } } } } }" }' \
     https://api.github.com/graphql | \
     jq -r '.data.repositoryOwner.pinnedRepositories.edges[].node.name'