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Mark Harrison
Mark Harrison

Reputation: 304444

How do I programatically identify forked github repos?

Using the github API, how can I determine if a repo has been forked from another repo? An example using gh api would be ideal.

Context: I would like to apply some different automated processing to my github repos depending on whether or not they have been forked from another repo.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 268

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323883

To access your private repositories, use gh login to authenticate yourself. Once authenticated, you will see your private repositories and any other resources to which your account has access.

The repos/ response contains a .fork indicator.

echo ghp_YOUR_TOKEN | gh auth login --with-token

gh api --method=GET repos/<user>/<repo> --jq ".fork"
false/true

Upvotes: 3

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