Get secret gists using Github GraphQL

Question

As title, I'm using Github GraphQL explorer to fetch list of my gists.

query {
  viewer {
    gists(first:5, privacy:ALL) {
            edges {
                node {
                    id
                    description
                    name
                    pushedAt
                }
            }
        }
  }
}

Everything works fine except that the secret gists are not included in the response. When I tried to fetch secret gists by changing the GistPrivacy from ALL to SECRET as below:

query {
  viewer {
    gists(first:5, privacy:SECRET) {
            edges {
                node {
                    id
                    description
                    name
                    pushedAt
                }
            }
        }
  }
}

The following permission error occurred:

{
  "data": {
    "viewer": {
      "gists": {
        "edges": []
      }
    }
  },
  "errors": [
    {
      "message": "You don't have permission to see gists."
    }
  ]
}

I wonder is there any way to solve this problem. I noticed that there was a related questions with irrelevant answer asked 5 years ago.

Any comment or help is much appreciated, thanks in advance.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '18 at 14:58

As it turns out, although one can't get the secret gists from the Github GraphQL explorer directly, by creating a Personal Access Tokens and using it to access the GraphQL API, one can get the secret gists.

The equivalent curl command is as following:

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.github.com/graphql \
  --header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN' \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{"query":"query {\n  viewer {\n    gists(first:5, privacy:ALL) {\n\t\t\tedges {\n\t\t\t\tnode {\n\t\t\t\t\tid\n\t\t\t\t\tdescription\n\t\t\t\t\tname\n\t\t\t\t\tpushedAt\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n  }\n}"}'

Get secret gists using Github GraphQL

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