I need to fetch the number of public repositories of a user using the Github API. I know that we can get a list of repos using /users/{username}/repos. This query returns a list of repositories. What I want is just the total number of repositories not the entire list. If I try to count the repositories using /users/{username}/repos it works fine for the users that have smaller number of repositories but for users that have a large number of repositories , the API call takes too much time. Is there any way by which I can get just the number of repos and not the entire list?

CodePudding user response：

The total_count field on the first response represents the total count of repositories matching, the response has your answer already.

CodePudding user response：

Instead of getting the list of repositories, you can get the user object and look at the public_repos field; for example, using the GitHub CLI:

$ gh api users/bewuethr | jq '.public_repos'
21