Repository Information

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

Prerequisites

GitHub CLI must be installed and authenticated:

gh auth status

Quick Reference

gh repo view                        # View current repo
gh repo view owner/repo             # View specific repo
gh repo list owner                  # List repos for owner

View Repository

gh repo view
gh repo view owner/repo
gh repo view owner/repo --json name,description,stargazersCount
gh repo view owner/repo --web  # Open in browser

Common JSON fields:

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

List Repositories

gh repo list
gh repo list owner
gh repo list owner --limit 50
gh repo list owner --json name,description
gh repo list owner --language go
gh repo list owner --source  # Non-forks only

Repository Search

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