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Nick
Nick

Reputation: 353

Request forbidden while accessing github api on node.js program

I'm trying to run this code but getting this error:

Request forbidden by administrative rules, make sure your request has a User-Agent header

var https = require("https");
var username = 'jquery';

var options = {
host: 'api.github.com',
path: '/users/' + username + '/repos',
method: 'GET'
};

var request = https.request(options, function(response){
var body = '';
response.on("data", function(chunk){
    body += chunk.toString('utf8');
});

response.on("end", function(){
    console.log("Body: ", body);
    });
});

request.end();

Upvotes: 26

Views: 13034

Answers (1)

Rodrigo Medeiros
Rodrigo Medeiros

Reputation: 7862

Your options object does not have the headers option, describing the user-agent. Try this:

var options = {
    host: 'api.github.com',
    path: '/users/' + username + '/repos',
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {'user-agent': 'node.js'}
};

Upvotes: 47

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