With the GitHub API, let's say I have used OAuth and I have the client secret of a user. Let's say I also have a repo, say myname/project, as well as a commit ID, say asdfghjkl123. With this information, I know I can get the details of the commit, but how can I do this on "behalf" of the user? Basically, I want to use the access token I have so that the rate limit is based on the user. Is this even possible?
As illustrated in this issue
A way to provide a
GITHUB_AUTH_TOKENenv var which is attached to GitHub requests to avoid api limits, as in this PR
I always set GITHUB_AUTH_TOKEN to my token before making my curl GitHub API calls: I then benefit from an higher rate limit.