clearlydefined / clearlydefined/service
[GitHub API] Deprecation notice for authentication via URL query parameters
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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- 51
- Forks
- 46
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Description
Hello there!
On February 3rd, 2020 at 22:31 (UTC) your application (ClearlyDefined) used an access token (with the User-Agent passport-github) as part of a query parameter to access an endpoint through the GitHub API.
https://api.github.com/user/emails
Please use the Authorization HTTP header instead as using the `access_token` query parameter is deprecated.
Depending on your API usage, we'll be sending you this email reminder once every 3 days for each token and User-Agent used in API calls made on your behalf.
Just one URL that was accessed with a token and User-Agent combination will be listed in the email reminder, not all.
Visit https://developer.github.com/changes/2019-11-05-deprecated-passwords-and-authorizations-api/#authenticating-using-query-parameters for more information.
Thanks,
The GitHub Team
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating the GitHub API request for /user/emails and check whether the access_token is being sent as a query parameter. Replace that authentication usage with the Authorization HTTP header, then verify that the request still succeeds without the deprecated parameter.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github, typescript
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100