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I am not going to give you access to my private repos. Is that really necessary?

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yeah it shouldn't be, couldn't get the GitHub API to give me access to just a single repo, once I work that out I'll definitely ease the requirement

throwanem|3 years ago

Only asking for repo:public_repo should solve for the "I'm not giving you private repo access" concern. (I'm not, either! Nothing personal, but if that stuff was ready for prime time it wouldn't be private.)

The "fine-grained token" beta is what you really want to use if you can, because that does give single-repository access, which classic Github OAuth tokens do not. No idea how or if it's possible yet to use that type of token in your grant flow, but that's where you probably want to be looking.

trehans|3 years ago

Could you just create a GitHub user and ask your readers to add that user as a contributor to the repository they want to use for storing bookmarks?