How to pass Github Auth token in Node Fetch?

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I'm currently dealing with API rate:

API rate limit exceeded. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.)

I've tried multiple different methods, but seems like I'm missing something, here is my current state:

const TOKEN = process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN; try { return await fetch( url + new URLSearchParams({ method: "GET", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${TOKEN}`, }, }) ).then((res) => res.json()); } catch (err) { console.log("Error at Get Pulls", err); }

I've tried with Bearer, without, with lowercase, but at the end I always get the same error.

Red · Accepted Answer · 2022-11-02 15:20:02Z

You are passing the headers and method inside the URLSearchParams, which is wrong. You must pass these properties to the fetch method.

URLSearchParams is a helper to work with the query string of a URL.

So do this instead

await fetch(url, { method: "GET", headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${TOKEN}`, }, }).then((res) => res.json());

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