This function fetches repository information from GitHub for a specified user or organization, with options to filter and limit the results.
Usage
repos(
owner,
type = "owner",
per_page = 100,
max_pages = 10,
filter_regex = NULL,
quiet = FALSE
)Arguments
- owner
Character string specifying the GitHub username or organization name
- type
Character string specifying the type of repositories to list: "all", "owner", "public", "private", or "member". Default is "owner".
- per_page
Number of repositories to return per page. Default is 100.
- max_pages
Maximum number of pages to retrieve. Default is 10.
- filter_regex
Optional regular expression to filter repositories by name
- quiet
Logical; if TRUE, suppresses progress and status messages. Default is FALSE.
Value
Returns a data.frame of repositories with the following columns:
- name
Character, repository name without owner prefix
- full_name
Character, complete repository identifier (owner/repo)
- default_branch
Character, the name of the default branch (e.g., "main" or "master")
- private
Logical, TRUE if repository is private, FALSE if public
Examples
if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# Get all repositories owned by a user
user_repos <- repos("username")
# Get only public repositories for an organization
org_public_repos <- repos("orgname", type = "public")
# Filter repositories by name pattern
api_repos <- repos("orgname", filter_regex = "^api-")
# Limit the number of fetched repositories
limited_repos <- repos("large-org", per_page = 50, max_pages = 2)
}