Searching for open PRs awaiting review in private repos returns nothing

[eliorivero]

Hi, this is a follow up to this question https://github.com/octokit/rest.js/discussions/1794 that Gregor kindly answered.

When I do

const reviews = await github.paginate( github.search.issuesAndPullRequests, {
    q: 'is:open is:pr review-requested:@me',
} );

it works fine and I get the PRs awaiting my review. However, I was asked to review a PR in a private repo and noticed it didn't returned it. Went to the docs and found that adding is: private should work to fetch PRs from private repos. And it does work in GitHub search https://github.com/search?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+is%3Aprivate+review-requested%3A%40me

However, when I try doing:

is:open is:pr is:private review-requested:@me

I get an empty array [];

Is the syntax different, or is this not supported? Is there any workaround in such case?

Thanks!

[gr2m]

Make sure your github instance is authenticated correctly.

This worked for me. Make sure your token has the repo scope

const octokit = new Octokit({
  auth: "[token with repo scope]",
});

const { data } = await octokit.request("GET /search/issues", {
  q: "is:open is:pr is:private review-requested:@me",
});

console.log(data);

[eliorivero]

Hi Gregor, thanks for your response!

The token does have repo scope. This is an OAuth app and the authorization link is created as
https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize?client_id=${ clientId }&scope=repo&state=${ state }
Also, I've another tool in this same app that creates multiple GitHub issues entering them in plain text and I can create them in private repos.

I tried the proposed solution and it didn't return anything. This is the response:

{   
  status: 200,
  url: 'https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=is%3Aopen%20is%3Apr%20is%3Aprivate%20review-requested%3A%40me',
  headers: {
    'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
    'access-control-expose-headers': 'ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, Deprecation, Sunset',
    'cache-control': 'no-cache',
    connection: 'close',
    'content-encoding': 'gzip',
    'content-security-policy': "default-src 'none'",
    'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
    date: 'Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:33:12 GMT',
    'referrer-policy': 'origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin',
    server: 'GitHub.com',
    status: '200 OK',
    'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload',
    'transfer-encoding': 'chunked',
    vary: 'Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With, Accept-Encoding',
    'x-accepted-oauth-scopes': '',
    'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff',
    'x-frame-options': 'deny',
    'x-github-media-type': 'github.v3; format=json',
    'x-github-request-id': 'A1B2:C3D4:ffgdfd:kjlkjlj:ihiuhihkh',
    'x-oauth-client-id': 'k5nkj5nkj4njk4nknknk',
    'x-oauth-scopes': 'repo',
    'x-ratelimit-limit': '30',
    'x-ratelimit-remaining': '29',
    'x-ratelimit-reset': '1595338452',
    'x-xss-protection': '1; mode=block'
  },
  data: { total_count: 0, incomplete_results: false, items: [] }
}

[eliorivero]

Thanks for al the help Gregor. Yes, the exact same result

{
  "total_count": 0,
  "incomplete_results": false,
  "items": [

  ]
}

[gr2m]

In that case it's not an Octokit issue. Can you please contact support at https://support.github.com/contact, share the curl command and reference this discussion? They will forward your request to the right people who have admin tools to investigate further.

I'd appreciate if you could keep us posted here if you find out what the problem is

[eliorivero]

Ok, I've contacted support and will update here if hear from them. Thanks!

[eliorivero]

Hi Gregor, support responded and the solution was that I needed access to that organization 🤦🏻‍♂️
I didn't think about looking there because I thought I asked for the permissions when I authorized the app connection.

Thanks a lot of the help, have a nice weekend!

[gr2m]

Glad you got it working! Thanks for letting me know!