How can I enable GitHub preview features, like topics?

Question

I'm using Apps - listRepos to get a list of all the repositories installed on my Probot GitHub application.

I want the response data to include the GitHub topics for each repository. This is currently only available as a preview feature:

The topics property for repositories on GitHub is currently available for developers to preview. To view the topics property in calls that return repository results, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header:

application/vnd.github.mercy-preview+json

So I think I want to "provide a custom media type in the Accept header".

Is there a way to enable GitHub preview features in Probot? Perhaps by somehow setting RequestOptions?

Update: This issue might be related: https://github.com/probot/probot/issues/760 — 4D4M, Jan 10 '19 at 13:41
Update 2: Ah, yeah. https://github.com/octokit/rest.js/pull/1083 — 4D4M, Jan 10 '19 at 13:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 10 '19 at 14:06

Success: I added a headers object to my listRepos() call.

const repositories = await octokit.paginate(
  octokit.apps.listRepos({
    per_page: 100,
    headers: {
      accept: 'application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview+json,application/vnd.github.mercy-preview+json'
    }
  }),
  res => res.data.repositories // Pull out only the list of repositories from each response.
);

How can I enable GitHub preview features, like topics?

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