How to get a list of all forks of a GitHub repo?

Question

I would like to get a list of all forks of a GitHub repo (e.g. https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker), however I am unable to find out how to do it using octokit.net.

I want also get a renamed repositories, I could not just search a name of a repository.

Any hints?

CLARIFICATION: The rest api is described here https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/forks/, but how to do it with octokit.net?

Telly

@YuvalItzchakov github.com/octokit/octokit.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=fork but for forks just for Gists (not git repos). Do you know how to do it? – Telly

Answer 1

The functionality has been added to octokit.net recently: https://github.com/octokit/octokit.net/blob/b07ce6e11a1b286dda0a65ee427bda3b8abcefb8/Octokit.Reactive/Clients/ObservableRepositoryForksClient.cs#L31

    /// <summary>
    /// Gets the list of forks defined for a repository
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>
    /// See <a href="http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/forks/#list-forks">API documentation</a> for more information.
    /// </remarks>
    /// <param name="owner">The owner of the repository</param>
    /// <param name="name">The name of the repository</param>
    public IObservable<Repository> GetAll(string owner, string name)
    {
        Ensure.ArgumentNotNullOrEmptyString(owner, "owner");
        Ensure.ArgumentNotNullOrEmptyString(name, "name");

        return GetAll(owner, name, ApiOptions.None);
    }

Similar functions exist for other ways to specify repository.

Please feel free to edit in the full code for this use case here.

Orissa

Answer 2

You can achieve that by visiting:

https://api.github.com/repos/<Author>/<Repo>/forks

Make sure to replace Author and Repo with suitable values.

Carmody

Note that this will only give you the first 30 forks. For more, you need to paginate with page (or modify per_page). See docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/forks?apiVersion=2022-11-28 – Foster

Answer 3

Threads a bit old but in case someone else ends up here from google thought Id necro it.

        private static IReadOnlyList<Octokit.Repository> retrieveGitHubRepos()
    {
        Task<IReadOnlyList<Octokit.Repository>> getRepoList = null;
        string appname = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FriendlyName;
        Octokit.GitHubClient client = new Octokit.GitHubClient(new Octokit.ProductHeaderValue(ConnectionDetails.appName));
        client.Credentials = new Octokit.Credentials(ConnectionDetails.username, ConnectionDetails.password);
        Task.Run(() => getRepoList = client.Repository.GetAllForUser(ConnectionDetails.username)).Wait();
        return getRepoList.Result;
    }

Parole

According to the name (GetAllForUser), it does not return all forks. – Telly