How to request value of only some fields related to issues of a repository on Github from Github API?

Question

When I am using a Github API URL like - https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/issues to get issues related information for jquery/jquery repository then the API returns information about issues with all the fields for a particular issue like -

"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/issues/2192",
    "labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/issues/2192/labels{/name}",
    "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/issues/2192/comments",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/jquery/jquery/issues/2192/events",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/2192",

But I don't want these all fields for a particular issue. I want the API to return only these fields instead of returning all the fields-

created_at
closed_at
pull_request

I am not using CURL. I am only using the API URL to get JSON data from Github API using a jQuery function -

    var issues_data;
    $.getJSON(URL, function(json){
      issues_data= json;                                 
    });

$.getJSON(URL, function(json) makes use of the URL as specified above and request information related to issues of jquery/jquery repository. But the returned information contains every field about each issue that makes the result size bigger and makes it a heavy request.

I want the Github API to return only above 3 fields for each issue instead of all the fields.

If anybody can help by providing the format of the URL or a code then it would be good.

Answer 1

Here is an example URL which uses the three query criteria you specified in your question:

https://github.com/search?q=created%3A%3E%3D2013-02-01+closed%3A%3C2013-10-01&type=pr

This searches for all pull requests (type=pr) which were created on or after February 1, 2013 (created%3A%3E%3D2013-02-01) and were also closed before October 1, 2013 (closed%3A%3C2013-10-01).