Getting the highest PR number in a repo

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I've come across an interesting problem with the gh API. I would like to get the current maximum PR number for a repository. I want to do this because I want to cache locally all PR details, so I obviously want an efficient algorithm to check for 'new' PRs. The API provides no facility to order results by PR number, and by default orders by creation date. But the PR only gets 'created' when it stops being a draft, so one could create a PR with a given number, keep is as a draft for some time, then open it, and it will then appear first in the default enumeration order which is by creation date. If you want to then find out what really is the highest number you must continue the enumeration until it's complete, which could take some time. Or you could repetitively query for higher numbers than the one you have. Either way is inefficient, when you just want a single call to give you the maximum number. Did I miss some trick here?

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