Github-api giving 404 when passing json-data with python + urllib2

Question

I have the following code, which should perform the first part of creating a new download at github. It should send the json-data with POST.

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Answer 1

I have provided an answer as to how to POST JSON data to the V3 API without any authentication, but seen as you have identified that the original problem was with not setting up your OAUTH tokens correctly, I thought I would provide a programatic solution to getting one (this implementation gets a token every time the script is run, whereas in practice it would be done just once, and the token would be stored localy).

import urllib2
import json
import getpass
import base64

# Generate a token from the username and password.
# NOTE: this is a naive implementation. Store pre-retrieved tokens if possible.
username = 'pelson'
passwd = getpass.getpass() # <- this just puts a string in passwd (plaintext)

req = urllib2.Request("https://api.github.com/authorizations")

# add the username and password info to the request
base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (username, passwd)).replace('\n', '')
req.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)

data = json.dumps({"scopes":["repo"], "note":"Access to your repository."})
result = urllib2.urlopen(req, data)
result = json.loads('\n'.join(result.readlines()))
token = result['token']

Once you have this token, it can be used for any "repo" scope actions. Lets add a new issue to a repository:

# add an issue to the tracker using the new token
repo = 'name_of_repo'
data = json.dumps({'title': 'My automated issue.'})
req = urllib2.Request("https://api.github.com/repos/%s/%s/issues" % (username, repo))
req.add_header("Authorization", "token %s" % token)
result = urllib2.urlopen(req, data)

result = json.loads('\n'.join(result.readlines()))
print result['number']

Hope that helps somebody.