How to run the workflow against private repositories within organization

[shahmanthan1209]

Hi team,
Can you please advise on how to run the GitHub action against the private repositories?

[ahatzz11]

I would also like to do this! The GH_TOKEN that I am passing is a Personal Access Token that has read/write to every repository in our organization, but it seems to only be grabbing public repos. I ran a report with INACTIVE_DAYS: 1 and only got a few dozen repos - I expected close to 500 from our private organization.

[ahatzz11]

I did a little research on this, and it seems like a little oversight in the 3rd party GitHub python library that was chosen:

Some docs about the current method being used: https://github3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api-reference/github.html#github3.github.GitHub.repositories_by

List public repositories for the specified username.

Based on some other docs (which are 3 years old, and the github3.py lib seems to kinda have some unclear documentation around this), it seems like this line:

for repo in github_connection.repositories_by(organization):

Should be replaced with:

org = github_connection.organization(organization)
for repo in org.repositories():

I'm definitely not a python expert so the above might not be 100% correct, but I think the repositories_by(organization) method call is the root of this issue.

[zkoppert]

👋🏻 Hi @shahmanthan1209 and @ahatzz11, That looks correct to me so I ran a quick test and it does in fact grab the private repos as long as the token has permission. When I designed this, I had in mind that this would be for public repos but no reason it couldn't be used internally as well!

I'll open up a PR and tag you all on it.

[zkoppert]

This is now released in v.1.1.0. 🎉