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viraptor
viraptor

Reputation: 34145

How to get GitHub API notifications that match the notifications site

I'm trying to get the same information out of GitHub that's shown on the https://github.com/notifications page. Unfortunately, the standard notifications API doesn't really match that view.

If I get the notifications from that API (even with participating=false), I don't see all the items visible on the website. On the other hand, the API seems to be based on the last_read_at idea, and things I've seen on the website don't disappear automatically from the notifications list.

Is there a way (without scraping the website) to obtain the same /notifications view?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 615

Answers (1)

Chester Cobus
Chester Cobus

Reputation: 701

So GitHub's API supports pagination for requests returning lists, so the API will return default of 30 notifications per page. What I suggest is setting the default size to 100 and then start from page 1 and call the next page till there is no results e.g. :

<https://api.github.com/notifications?page=1&per_page=100>; rel="next"
<https://api.github.com/notifications?page=2&per_page=100>; rel="next"
...and so on till you get an empty list then you stop

The rel="next" is a Link Header which is explained here: https://developer.github.com/v3/#pagination

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 2

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