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For my discord.js bot I want a way to get the latest GitHub release date, but the repo is private on an organization and I want a simple way, maybe using child_process.exec could do that but I don't find anything on the Internet.

I just want the date, in timestamp or in a string.

Ayfri
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You could use a HTTP request to the GitHub release API

GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/releases/latest

// Example

https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}/releases/latest

Then answer will include:

"created_at": "2013-02-27T19:35:32Z",
"published_at": "2013-02-27T19:35:32Z",

The publication date should be the one you want.

Using the more recent GitHub CLI gh:

# GitHub CLI api
# https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_api

gh api \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  /repos/OWNER/REPO/releases/latest

Example for genotrance/px releases:

gh api -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" /repos/genotrance/px/releases/latest --jq ".published_at"

2023-02-07T15:59:14Z

VonC
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