Admin APIs on GitHub Packages

[alexandru-grigor-aera]

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Hello,

In our organization we are using GitHub Packages to host several types of packages (Container images, npm, maven, etc.).
So far we have hundreds of such packages and, when they were created their permissions and linked repositories were not properly set for all of them.
Now, we want to change that, but, as far as I found there are no available APIs (REST or GraphQL) that would allow us to do this in bulk based on some logic.

Going through the UI of each package is not really feasible, since we are talking about quite a few.

Any suggestions on how we could do it programatically? Or the packages UI is our only option?

Thanks!

[yogesh-bhandari07]

Hello,

I understand the challenge you're facing with managing package permissions and linked repositories in GitHub Packages, especially with a large number of packages.

As of now, GitHub does not provide a bulk management API specifically for package permissions or linked repositories. Unfortunately, the available REST and GraphQL APIs for GitHub Packages do not include endpoints for bulk updating package permissions or linking repositories.

[alexandru-grigor-aera]

I don't necessarily need to do it in bulk, I'm comfortable writing a script that does it 1 at a time, as long as there are some APIs to update the package.

[alexandru-grigor-aera]

Unfortunately GraphQL API doesn't support container packages so we cannot use this approach 😔

[alexandru-grigor-aera]

Interestingly how ChatGPT gave me a very similar answer, but this doesn't do anything other than adding users to a repository.

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[alexandru-grigor-aera]

As an update, I did get in touch with GitHub support regarding this and there is currently no such APIs available 😢. So, I'm changing this to a feedback discussion. We would highly appreciate such APIs.

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[RuneStone0]

+1 could really use this!