📊 Count comments on a GitHub issue 🎫

☝️ Why counting comments matters ?

There are two type issues with a lot of comments :

1️⃣ The ones that are popular, then getting a lot of feedback 🤗
2️⃣ The ones that have a lot of comments because we struggle to fix them efficiently 😱

👉 In both cases, performing report on them can be helpful to monitor your RUN performances.

❔ Count with API calls

☝️ There actually is no native gh issue command to count issues on a specific command...

👉 but gh api...

"Makes an authenticated HTTP request to the GitHub API and prints the response."

gh api <endpoint> [flags]

💡 This short post is documenting how easy it is to count comments on a given issue.

🤓 Snippet

gh api -X GET \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  -F per_page=100 \
  /repos/YOUR_ORGA/REPO/issues/ISSUEID/comments | \
  jq '. | length'

Comments

[Jan Vlnas]

Thanks for the tip!

I can't wrap my head around one thing, though: wouldn't that count comments only up to 100, as more comments would be paginated? 🤔

I wonder if issue endpoint would be better for this task, as it seems to contain comments property with the comments count.

[adriens]

Here we go, and thanks a lot for having pointed this to us, see that trick @mbarre :

gh api -X GET \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  -F per_page=100 \
  /repos/ORGA/REPO/issues/ISSUID | \
  jq '.comments'

... I could get :

149

within a single shot 😊

[adriens]

Hmmm, that looks pretty interesting indeed !

"comments": 0,

[adriens]

Adrien SALES

@rastadidi

💡 @github gh cli is a great tool to perform API calls
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20:26 PM - 25 Sep 2022