Open powersj opened 1 year ago
Create a GitHub API client that takes a token that will allow us to gather statistics about a specific repo.
The necessary APIs may be one or all of the following per repo:
One of these requests may also include the stargazers_count, forks_count, and watchers_count.
stargazers_count
forks_count
watchers_count
We are going to need to authenticate as a user will hit this limit pretty quickly:
Unauthenticated clients can make 60 requests per hour.
This is taken care of via the "Authorization" header (e.g. token <my token here>):
token <my token here>
$ curl -i -H 'Authorization: token <token>' https://api.github.com/user
We will want to keep track of:
Explain how to create a personal access token in GitHub UI that has the minimum amount of access.
Create a GitHub API client that takes a token that will allow us to gather statistics about a specific repo.
APIs
The necessary APIs may be one or all of the following per repo:
One of these requests may also include the
stargazers_count,forks_count, andwatchers_count.Authentication
We are going to need to authenticate as a user will hit this limit pretty quickly:
This is taken care of via the "Authorization" header (e.g.
token <my token here>):Data
We will want to keep track of:
Docs
Explain how to create a personal access token in GitHub UI that has the minimum amount of access.