Api does not return projects (or boards)

[vmeng-b]

I am trying to fetch the projects/boards with the following links: "https://api.github.com/repos/${owner}/${repoName}/projects" and "https://api.github.com/users/${username}/projects" (i tried both).
But both links only return an empty Array or undefined, although projects exist.

Does somebody have an idea how to fix it?

[david-engelmann]

Check out this documentation it should be able to provide some clarity!

[vmeng-b]

Already done. I followed all the steps but it still doesn't return the projects.

[jdevfullstack]

it's not a public endpoint, it requires authentication

[vmeng-b]

[LangLangBart]

This project of yours is ProjectV2.

GraphQL QUERY

{
  repository(owner: "vmeng-b", name: "WebProgrammierung") {
    projects(first: 10) {
      totalCount
      nodes {
        number
      }
    }
    projectsV2(first: 10) {
      totalCount
      nodes {
        number
        title
      }
    }
  }
}

RESULT

{
  "data": {
    "repository": {
      "projects": {
        "totalCount": 0,
        "nodes": []
      },
      "projectsV2": {
        "totalCount": 1,
        "nodes": [
          {
            "number": 1,
            "title": "@vmeng-b's test project"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

---

The docs have a note for your used endpoint /repos/{owner}/{repo}/projects:

This API only applies to projects (classic). Projects can be managed with the GraphQL API. For more information, see "Using the API to manage projects."
You can only create a new classic project for an organization, user, or repository that already has at least one classic project.

---

Some repos still use the old Projects (classic), for example the cli/cli repo. Here your could use the REST API.

# vmeng-b/WebProgrammierung no results
gh api -X GET repos/vmeng-b/WebProgrammierung/projects
[]

# cli/cli results
gh api -X GET repos/cli/cli/projects
[
  {
    "owner_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/cli/cli",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/projects/3514315",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/cli/cli/projects/1",
    "columns_url": "https://api.github.com/projects/3514315/columns",
    "id": 3514315,
    "node_id": "MDc6UHJvamVjdDM1MTQzMTU=",
    "name": "The GitHub CLI",
    "body": "It's GitHub, but, you know, on your CLI.",
    "number": 1,
    "state": "open",
    "creator": {
      "login": "probablycorey",
      "id": 596,
      "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjU5Ng==",
      "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/596?v=4",
      "gravatar_id": "",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/probablycorey",
      ...

[vmeng-b]

Thank you very much. That helped alot but how can I access the result data (in ts)?
I get a result but I can't find the correct way to access its data.

[LangLangBart]

Octokit is a useful client for the GitHub API to get the data.

---

Example

import { Octokit } from "octokit";
const octokit = new Octokit({ auth: "Here is your tokenTOKENtoken" });
const query = `query ($owner: String!, $pV2Number: Int!) {
	user(login: $owner) {
	  projectV2(number: $pV2Number) {
		id
		createdAt
	  }
	}
  }`

async function getSomeProjectV2Data(owner: string, projectV2Number: number)
{
	const { user: { projectV2: { id, createdAt } } } = await octokit.graphql<{ user: { projectV2: { id: string, createdAt: string } } }>(query, { "owner": owner, "pV2Number": projectV2Number });
	console.log(`created:${createdAt}\nId:${id}`);
}
getSomeProjectV2Data("LangLangBart", 5)
// created:2022-11-04T05:56:40Z
// Id:PVT_kwHOBYXG0s4AH-Z1

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