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andrea marchetti
andrea marchetti

Reputation: 93

Authenticate http call to GitHub APIs in java

I'm working on a project which requires to call GitHub APIs several times and I reached the limit of 60. I read that with authentication you get 5000 as limit but I can't understand how I can authenticate my requests in my java program. I got my authentication token on Github and this is the way I'm building the request in java:

// create client
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();

// create request
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
                .uri(URI.create("https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/commits"))
                .build();

what should I add to the request to authenticate it? I tried adding the header authToken:myToken but it didn't work.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1978

Answers (2)

andrea marchetti
andrea marchetti

Reputation: 93

Solved:

Once I got the token on my GitHub profile > Settings > Developer Settings > Personal Access Tokens, I added the header `"Authorization: Bearer "myToken" " to the http request so the request becomes:

// create client
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();

// create request
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder().header("Authorization","Bearer <myToken>")
                .uri(URI.create("https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/commits"))
                .build();

Upvotes: 2

Michael Gantman
Michael Gantman

Reputation: 7790

You need to add Http request header Authorization to your request and the header should contain your token. So if your code is written on Java 11 or higher as it appears to be than you need to change your code to:

// create client
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();

// create request
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
                .uri(URI.create("https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/commits"))
                .header("Authorization", "your-tocken")
                .build();

Upvotes: 0

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