How to GET private repositories using curl?

Question

I want to get a list of my private repositories from GitHub. In the GitHub REST API documentation it states that the visibility as private can be supplied as parameter. But I don't know how to do it.

I am able to get a list of my public repositories using the following command in command line

curl -u "username:password" -X GET https://mygithuburl.com/users/username/repos

How to supply the visibility parameter to private to get a list of only the private repos?

Answer 1

You can supply the parameters as regular query string arguments:

Many API methods take optional parameters. For GET requests, any parameters not specified as a segment in the path can be passed as an HTTP query string parameter:

curl -i "https://api.github.com/repos/vmg/redcarpet/issues?state=closed"

In this example, the 'vmg' and 'redcarpet' values are provided for the :owner and :repo parameters in the path while :state is passed in the query string.

In your case:

curl \
    -u "username:password" \
    -X GET \
    https://mygithuburl.com/user/repos?visibility=private