Software Engineering :: Source Control :: VCS :: Git :: Managed Hosting Platform :: GitHub :: Gist :: API :: Authentication

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Software Engineering :: Source Control :: VCS :: Git :: Managed Hosting Platform :: GitHub :: Gist :: API :: Authentication

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deprecation

• Deprecating password authentication

Authentication

There are two ways to authenticate through GitHub API v3. Requests that require authentication will return 404 Not Found, instead of 403 Forbidden, in some places. This is to prevent the accidental leakage of private repositories to unauthorized users.

• Security

Gists

You can read public gists anonymously, but you must be signed into GitHub to create gists. To read or write gists on a user's behalf, you need the gist OAuth scope and a token.

• GIST_GITHUB_API_TOKEN
• Personal API Access Tokens

HTTP Basic Authentication

> curl -u "username" https://api.github.com

HTTP OAuth2 Authorization Header Token (token)

> curl -H "Authorization: token $GIST_API_TOKEN" https://api.github.com

HTTP OAuth2 Authorization Header Token (Bearer)

> curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $GIST_API_TOKEN" https://api.github.com

~/.netrc

machine gist.github.com login git password $GIST_API_TOKEN

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