GitHub api - for a forked repository object, how to get what repository its forked from?

For the getRepos action, you will get a list of the user's repositories.

The repository objects that are returned have some information in them. However, they don't seem to have any information about "what repository am i forked from?"

How can I get that?

How do I find out who forked my GitHub repository?

Clicking the number of forks shows you the full network. From there you can click "members" to see who forked the repo.

In the "Get" section of the repo API, you can see two fields which address your question:

The parent and source objects are present when the repo is a fork:

parent is the repo this repo was forked from,

source is the ultimate source for the network.

When I get my fork of the git repo, I see:

curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/VonC/git"

  "parent": {
    "id": 36502,
    "name": "git",
    "full_name": "git/git",
    "owner": {
      "login": "git",
      "id": 18133,

You can get the forked repo information by reading the content of the parent field.