Repository Information

View repository details and list repositories with the gh CLI. Read-only operations only.

Prerequisites

GitHub CLI must be installed and authenticated:

bash
1gh auth status

Quick Reference

bash
1gh repo view                        # View current repo
2gh repo view owner/repo             # View specific repo
3gh repo list owner                  # List repos for owner

View Repository

bash
1gh repo view
2gh repo view owner/repo
3gh repo view owner/repo --json name,description,stargazersCount
4gh repo view owner/repo --web  # Open in browser

Common JSON fields:

bash
1gh repo view owner/repo --json name,description,url,stargazersCount,forkCount,isPrivate,languages,topics

List Repositories

bash
1gh repo list
2gh repo list owner
3gh repo list owner --limit 50
4gh repo list owner --json name,description
5gh repo list owner --language go
6gh repo list owner --source  # Non-forks only

Repository Search

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1gh search repos "query"
2gh search repos "language:go stars:>100"
3gh search repos "org:anthropics"