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Reputation: 1759

Authentication issues for GitHub api request

I am trying to retrieve a list of collaborators from a repository on GitHub, as an example, I am using the repository of the GitHub API for Golang.

In curl, the request would be the following:

curl -u "my user" https://api.github.com/repos/google/go-github/collaborators

After a password prompt, I get the following JSON result:

{
  "message": "Must have push access to view repository collaborators.",
  "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3"
}

How do I get push access? Do I need to become a collaborator myself? A bit too much just to get a list of a project's contributors.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1048

Answers (1)

Schwern
Schwern

Reputation: 164809

How do I get push access? Do I need to become a collaborator myself? A bit too much just to get a list of a project's contributors.

A project's collaborators and contributors are different.

Contributors are anyone who's had a commit accepted, that is public information on the project web page and from running git log. You can get project contributors from the Github API without logging in.

$ curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/google/go-github/contributors | head -20
[
  {
    "login": "willnorris",
    "id": 1112,
    "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1112?v=3",
    "gravatar_id": "",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/willnorris",

Collaborators are the project administrators on Github, that information is private.

Upvotes: 4

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