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Implementation issues

ronan edited this page Aug 5, 2021 · 2 revisions

A common issue that you may run into when working with the GitHub API is that you receive the below response:

Response code: 403 (Forbidden)
Response Body:
Request forbidden by administrative rules. Please make sure your request has a User-Agent header

This is a specific issue with the GitHub API, more details on the solution can be found here.

To resolve the issue, add the following as the User-Agent header when making requests:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.111 YaBrowser/16.3.0.7146 Yowser/2.5 Safari/537.36

For certain GitHub API operations, they are only available for developers to preview and are subject to change. To access these API during the preview period, you must provide a custom media type in the Accept header of the request:

application/vnd.github.scarlet-witch-preview+json
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