`--per-page N` to get all students fails for large N

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
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Stale
Tech stack
github, go
Domain
api, cli

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Start by reproducing gh classroom clone student-repos --per-page 199 and trace the clone student-repos entry point that builds the accepted_assignments request. Done means cohorts over 100 no longer return HTTP 500 and the command can clone all requested students, with pulling included if that remains in scope.

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Description

          You can use the `--per-page` and `--page` flags of `clone student-repos` to pull more than 30 assignments per page and view other pages! Another user is also working on a `clone-all` option that should be coming soon!

Originally posted by @RyanHecht in https://github.com/github/gh-classroom/issues/12#issuecomment-1719538429

Sadly trying to get all pages for something over about 100 students fails with:

gh classroom clone student-repos --per-page 199 --directory /tmp/grading

HTTP 500: Server Error (https://api.github.com/assignments/.../accepted_assignments?page=1&per_page=199)

Is there any progress on a clone and pull for all students?

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