Searching/filtering releases via query parameters

[theboyWhoCriedWoolf]

Is there a way to return a list of Releases by keyword or state? So, all releases that have Sample in the title/body and is draft?

I am trying to find a way to use either the Rest API or GraphQL api to return a list of releases by a keyword or state of a release.

So similar to the search functionality within the Releases page within github.com

For example:

[Kiran1689]

@theboyWhoCriedWoolf I think it can be achieved using GraphQL and your GitHub access token..

[theboyWhoCriedWoolf]

Thanks for your response. Can you please share an example that demonstrates this?

So far using both I have been unable to find a way using either of them.

[Kiran1689]

Like writing a query to fetch the releases..
To start with

query {
search(query: "repo:yourgithubusername/repoName Sample state:draft", type: RELEASE )

And then getting name of the releases....
I don't know this will work or not
I used the similar approach to fetch all my issues and PR from my GitHub account so I thought this will help

Give it a try....

[theboyWhoCriedWoolf]

Unfortunately it doesnt look like the type schema supports RELEASE.

[Kiran1689]

Yeah, thats why I am also not sure about it.

[AndrewOfC]

I scratched this out using githubV3py which uses the REST API

import githubV3py

def main():
    import argparse
    
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    
    parser.add_argument("-o", "--owner")
    parser.add_argument("-r", "--repo") 
    parser.add_argument("-t", "--token")

    options = parser.parse_args()
    

    ghc = githubV3py.GitHubClient(token=options.token)     
    
    releases = ghc.ReposListReleases(options.owner, options.repo)
    
    paginator = githubV3py.GitHubClient.generate(ghc.ReposListReleases, options.owner, options.repo, per_page=10)
    
    for release in paginator:
        isinstance(release, githubV3py.Release)
        print(f"{release.name:25} isDraft: {release.draft}")
        print(release.body)
                                        
    print(f"rate-limit remaining = {ghc.rateLimitRemaining}")
    
    return

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

[theboyWhoCriedWoolf]

Thanks for your reply @AndrewOfC. I did something similar by fetching releases and then filtering them, however doesnt seem to be very performant, so, was wondering if the GitHub API provided something out the box I could utilise.

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