GitHub API access with Personal Access Token using C# HttpClient and .NET Core

Program.cs

public class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Task.WaitAll(ExecuteAsync());
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

    public static async Task ExecuteAsync()
    {
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        client.BaseAddress = new Uri("https://api.github.com");
        var token = "<token>";

        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.UserAgent.Add(new System.Net.Http.Headers.ProductInfoHeaderValue("AppName", "1.0"));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new System.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new System.Net.Http.Headers.AuthenticationHeaderValue("Token", token);

        var response = await client.GetAsync("/user");
    }
}

This is the bare minimum to access the app. You could probably remove the "Accept" and rely on the default.

Authorization and User-Agent are required.

Dude! User-Agent should always be added to, not overwritten.

client.DefaultRequestHeaders.UserAgent.Add(new ProductInfoHeaderValue("appName"));

Okay, will modify tomorrow to do this right.

In this case, doesn't matter... But I agree with you

@darrelmiller happy? 😄

Thanks! This helped me with a demo I was putting together!

Thanks :-)

Awesome thanks, just needed this!

How to get the content from the github api? I am not able to extract content that I can see when I use cli to invoke the api

@Kriti021999 You will be able to get the content by adding the following after:

response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
string content = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
//todo: deserialize the JSON string in `content`

content will have the JSON representation of the URL above. You may need to create the objects yourself. The goal of this API is when you need to create single-api calls without importing all the libraries. If you are making lots of GitHub API calls, you should use the SDK. 😃

@MaximRouiller Hi. The code snippet is only working for public repos. Can you help me figure out how I can access private repos as well?

Really appreciated, thanks!