sindresorhus/refined-github

Disable all feature that require personal token #3217

aminya posted onGitHub

I get a lot of these messages: image

I prefer to disable those features instead. Also, I am not sure why I need tokens for the public repositories.


I prefer to disable those features instead.

You are free to and you can, in the extension's settings view.


Also, I am not sure why I need tokens for the public repositories.

GitHub has a limit of 60 API requests per hour for unauthenticated requests (and 5000 for authenticated requests, using token).

https://developer.github.com/v3/#rate-limiting

posted by notlmn almost 5 years ago

I prefer to disable those features instead.

You are free to and you can, in the extension's settings view.

But I don't know which features require such access.

posted by aminya almost 5 years ago

But I don't know which features require such access.

You do, the console tells you:

image

and there's a link in the options page as well:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github/blob/14304aef8804280496aeb3564a81d79fd67b6504/source/options.html#L10

Also, I am not sure why I need tokens for the public repositories.

GitHub API v4 requires a token for any call, regardless of repo status.

posted by fregante almost 5 years ago

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