Is there a way to get a list of all the releases in a GitHub repository?

Question

I believe the PyGitHub libary can do this, but for the purposes of my project, I am calling the GitHub API directly with the requests library as I am caching the results of my API call with the requests-cache library.

According to the documentation for the per_page parameter, the maximum number of releases you can retrieve is 100, but if I am dealing with a repository with over 100, how can I still get a list of all of them? Example code below.

import requests

ACCESS_TOKEN = '<insert token>'

headers = {
    'Authorization': 'token ' + ACCESS_TOKEN,
    'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.v3+json'
}

response = requests.get('https://api.github.com/repos/{insert author}/{insert repository}/releases?per_page=100', headers={'Authorization': 'token ' + ACCESS_TOKEN})

print(response.json())

Answer 1

The Github API uses pagination to deal with large numbers of responses. You can request pages other than the first page by appending page=<n> to your request url. For example:

page = 1
while True:
    response = requests.get(
        f"https://api.github.com/repos/{user}/{repo}/releases?per_page=100&page={page}",
        headers={"Authorization": "token " + ACCESS_TOKEN},
    )
    releases = response.json()
    if not releases:
        break
    print(json.dumps(releases, indent=2))
    page += 1