Authorize GitHub calls

[sergey-tihon]

Unauthorized API calls has very small call per hour limit:

Unauthenticated requests will be limited to 60 per hour ... To enjoy the default rate limit of 5,000 requests per hour, you’ll need to authenticate via Basic Auth or OAuth

It is very annoying when you has GitHub dependencies

As workaround I would like to be able to create paket.exe.config and specify my GitHub username and password. This should allow me work without limits and delays.

@forki Your thoughts about this?

[forki]

Related: #510

[sneal]

I'd prefer to use a GitHub API key instead of my username and password.

[JonCanning]

Just been looking at this, we would like to use a token to retrieve files from private repos. The possibilities seem to be:

Adding the token to the top of the dependencies file:
source https://github.com/forki/FsUnit token

Adding it in line:
github forki/FsUnit FsUnit.fs token

Or adding it to the paket.config

Any thoughts/guidance?

[forki]

I guess the config would be most helpful.

[baronfel]

For bonus points, once we have the concept of github tokens we could use the github releases api in the bootstrapper instead of HTML parsing, if the token was present.

[forki]

I don't think that's needed. Would just introduce more stuff to the
bootstrapper
On Oct 2, 2015 14:39, "Chester Husk III" [email protected] wrote:

For bonus points, once we have the concept of github tokens we could use
the github releases api in the bootstrapper instead of HTML parsing, if the
token was present.

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[forki]

released in 2.9