☝️ Why counting comments matters ?

There are two type issues with a lot of comments :

1️⃣ The ones that are popular, then getting a lot of feedback 🤗
2️⃣ The ones that have a lot of comments because we struggle to fix them efficiently 😱

👉 In both cases, performing report on them can be helpful to monitor your RUN performances.

❔ Count with API calls

☝️ There actually is no native gh issue command to count issues on a specific command...

👉 but gh api...

"Makes an authenticated HTTP request to the GitHub API and prints the response."

gh api <endpoint> [flags]

💡 This short post is documenting how easy it is to count comments on a given issue.

🤓 Snippet

gh api -X GET \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
  -F per_page=100 \
  /repos/YOUR_ORGA/REPO/issues/ISSUEID/comments | \
  jq '. | length'