Github API Basic Authentication Example

1.Generate Personal access tokens

Open this page Generate Personal access tokens and click Generate new token to get a token;

2.Use access token to request Github REST api

2.1 Install requests with pip;

pip install requests

2.2 Sustitute GITHUB_API_USER_NAME with your user name and GITHUB_API_PERSONAL_TOKEN with the token you got in step one, then run the following code;

from requests import Request, Session
from requests.exceptions import ConnectionError, Timeout, TooManyRedirects

def getRateLimit():
    url = 'https://api.github.com/rate_limit'
    print(url)
    parameters = {
    }
    headers = {
        'Accept':'application/vnd.github.v3+json',
    }
    session = Session()
    session.auth = ("GITHUB_API_USER_NAME", "GITHUB_API_PERSONAL_TOKEN")
    session.headers.update(headers)
    data = None;
    try:
        response = session.get(url, params=parameters)
        return response;
    except (ConnectionError, Timeout, TooManyRedirects) as e:
        print(e)
    return data;

if __name__ == '__main__':
    rs = getRateLimit()
    # print(rs.headers)
    print(rs.text)


## Output:
## if your access token is correct, the limit of core of resources should be 5000 rather than 60.
{"resources":{"core":{"limit":5000,"used":1245,"remaining":3755,"reset":1625664206},"search":{"limit":30,"used":0,"remaining":30,"reset":1625662728},"graphql":{"limit":5000,"used":0,"remaining":5000,"reset":1625666268},"integration_manifest":{"limit":5000,"used":0,"remaining":5000,"reset":1625666268},"source_import":{"limit":100,"used":0,"remaining":100,"reset":1625662728},"code_scanning_upload":{"limit":500,"used":0,"remaining":500,"reset":1625666268}},"rate":{"limit":5000,"used":1245,"remaining":3755,"reset":1625664206}}