How to access the github API via requests in python?

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I am trying to access the github API via requests with python (Answers in similar questions here and here do not help).

Using curl, I am able to get a list of recent commits for a project, e.g.

curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.inertia-preview+json Authorization: token a0d42faabef23ab5b5462394373fc133ca107890" https://api.github.com/repos/rsapkf/42/commit

Trying to use the same setup in python with requests I tried to use

url = "https://api.github.com/repos/rsapkf/42/commits"
headers = {"Accept": "application/vnd.github.inertia-preview+json", "Authorization": "token a0d42faabef23ab5b5462394373fc133ca107890"}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

as well as

url = "https://api.github.com/repos/rsapkf/42/commits"
headers = {"Accept": "application/vnd.github.inertia-preview+json"}
my_username = "someuser"
my_token  = "a0d42faabef23ab5b5462394373fc133ca107890"
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers, auth=(my_username, my_token))

but in both cases I get the response

{'documentation_url': 'https://docs.github.com/rest',
 'message': 'Bad credentials'}

What am I missing here?

shameless plug: I wrote a package that makes using github API easier: cmustrudel.github.io/strudel.scraper — Marat
– Marat, Commented Oct 19, 2020 at 15:23
@Marat Thank you for that suggestion, but it does not seem to work. I get an error requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 401 Client Error: Unauthorized for url... — Alex
– Alex, Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 5:39
for certain APIs, e.g. to read from private repositories you have access to, you have to use auth. Also, even for public data, unauthenticated requests are limited to only 60/hour per IP — Marat
– Marat, Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 15:32

Alex · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-20 06:08:38Z

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No Authentication is required. The following works:

url = "https://api.github.com/repos/rsapkf/42/commits"
headers = {"Accept": "application/vnd.github.inertia-preview+json"}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

answered Oct 20, 2020 at 6:08

Alex

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Marat Over a year ago

it only gives you 60 requests per hour. The problem in the original code was that my_username should be token instead of someuser

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