按名称链接到 GitHub 里程碑

Question

I'd like to link to GitHub milestones by their name. We have milestones named by version numbers, eg 0.1.0 , 0.1.1 , 0.2.0 ... but milestones URLs have internal numbers ( https://github.com/owner/project/milestone/1 , https://github.com/owner/project/milestone/2 , ...). How can I automatically generate a link to the corresponding milestone URL given only its milestone name?

Answer 1

There seems to be no official way or third-party service to link to a GitHub milestone by its name but it would be easy to build such service based on GitHub API. As indicated by jonrsharpe , the milestones API can be used to query all milestones and then find a corresponding link. Given user $USER , repository name $REPO and milestone name $VERSION , this one-line gets the milestone URL (requires curl and jq ):

curl -s 'https://api.github.com/repos/$USER/$REPO/milestones?per_page=100' \
  | jq -r ".[]|select(.title==\"$VERSION\").html_url"

This only works for up to 100 milestones because of API response pagination.