This makes no sense. I am developing a product in this space (https://codeinput.com) and GitHub API and GraphQl is a badly entangled mess but you don’t trick your way around ids.

There is actually a documented way to do it: https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/guides/using-global-node-...

Same for urls, you are supposed to get them directly from GitHub not construct them yourself as format can change and then you find yourself playing a refactor cat-and-mouse game.

Best you can do is an hourly/daily cache for the values.