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Rajat Rao
Rajat Rao

Reputation: 191

Get github API results more than 100

I want to develop github alike issue tracker.
For that i have been working on this below api.
https://api.github.com/repos/facebook/react/issues?per_page=100
But this api results only 100 results per request as per docs.
Is there a way i can get all results of issues and not just 100,i can make multiple request but i don't think it is feasible way of doing it.
Issue object itself contain author,label,assignee so needed all results at once.
Is there any way to do it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2196

Answers (1)

bk2204
bk2204

Reputation: 76459

No, there is no way to get all of the results without pagination. GitHub, like almost all major web sites, has a time limit on the amount of time a request can take. If you have a repository with, say, 150 000 issues, then any reasonable operation on all of those issues will take longer than the timeout. Therefore, it doesn't make sense for GitHub to allow you to disable pagination in this way because the request would invariably fail anyway.

Even if you use the GraphQL API, you still get a limited number of results. If you want to fetch all of the issues, you'll need to make multiple requests.

Upvotes: 2

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