Private repositories

[Kludex]

After the removal of GH_TOKEN on 1.0.0, we can't retrieve the data from private repositories anymore.

Is there a solution for it besides pinning 0.4.4?

[ojacques]

Good point. I tried to add authentication with a token to fetch the contributors-list endpoint, but with no success so far.
master...private-repos

This is not an API endpoint by itself, so I am not sure this is even possible to do it this way. Suggestions welcomed!

[Kludex]

It's not possible 😢

This repository insights graph is available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see "About repository graphs" and "GitHub's products."

Reference: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/viewing-activity-and-data-for-your-repository/viewing-a-projects-contributors

[ojacques]

Until 0.4.4, I was using the local git log history, attempting to map it to GitHub users by querying by email - if available. This was unreliable.
With 1.x, I switched to just get a page from GitHub, which is reliable and fast but prevents querying private repos.

I should be able to move to yet another method, leveraging graphql and the commit object which should work for private repositories. I will see what can be done.

Can I ask what is the use case for private repositories?

[adamcrosby]

We use private repos and private gh_pages for internal knowledge management, project management, etc.