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Display all github issues for a repository on one single page?


I want to quickly scan / search all issues for a particular project (it has around 200 issues).

Looking one page at a time is very slow. Especially when using ctrl + f to search for a symbol (which is occasionally necessary since github's native search doesn't return search results for symbols, only strings).

How can I see all of a repo's issues on a single page?

Note: I am open to using the github api if no website solution is possible


Solution

  • You can't enumerate all the issues in the repository at once. GitHub requires pagination not only because rendering all of the items at once can lead to an unusably slow page that can crash the browser, but also because it puts a large amount of load on their servers.

    The API does have pagination, but the number of items per page is limited to 100. Be sure to use the Link header as recommended if you decide to use it anyway.