Access Github API using Personal Access Token with Python urllib2
I don't know why this question was marked down. Anyway, I found an answer:
from urllib2 import urlopen, Requesturl = "https://api.github.com/users/vhf/repos"token = "my_personal_access_token"request = Request(url)request.add_header('Authorization', 'token %s' % token)response = urlopen(request)print(response.read())
I realize this question is a few years old, but if anyone wants to auth with a personal access token while also using the requests.get and requests.post methods you also have the option of using the method below:
request.get(url, data=data, auth=('user','{personal access token}')) This is just basic authentication as documented in the requests library, which apparently you can pass personal access tokens to according to the github api docs.
From the docs:
Via OAuth Tokens Alternatively, you can use personal access tokens orOAuth tokens instead of your password.
curl -u username:token https://api.github.com/userThis approach is useful if your tools only support Basic Authentication but you want to take advantage of OAuth access token security features.