I want to get only issues and not pull requests from GitHub rest api in a specific repository, but https://api.github.com/repos/user/repo/issues endpoint returns both issues and pull requests. Github rest api docs don't say anything about searching in a specific repository. Adding q parameter to the above method does not do anything. I can't filter response to find only issues because my repository contains much more pull requests than issues.
What is the way to get only issues?
How can I search only for issues in github repository through github rest api?
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You can use the search issues/PR API and filter with your repo path and is:issue :
GET https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=is:issue%20repo:owner/repo
Note that type:issue also works, checkout this
The more compact option would be (March 2022) to use gh 2.7.0, and it new command gh search issues
Adds the
search issuesandsearch prscommand.The
search issuescommand includes a--include-prsflag that allows for including pull requests in the search results.
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