什么是用户代理字符串（github api）

Question

So, I'm attempting to make an HTTP request to github to return a list of all the issues on a particular github repository. I'm using coffeescript in my code below but it should be fairly self explanatory for any JS developer. my confusion is that if I enter " https://api.github.com/repos/username/repo-name/issues " into my browser I can retrieve all of the info that I'm looking for. I get an error saying "Missing or invalid User Agent string" when I try to make the request through my application with the request node library . Please let me know if you know how to properly structure a URL to actually retrieve information from the github API.

githubUrl = "https://api.github.com/repos/#{username}/#{repoName}/issues?state=open"

    request githubUrl, (error, response, body) ->

        console.log body

Answer 1

You need to pass a user agent string like it says :) I just pulled one from chrome:

require( 'https' )
    .get({
         hostname : 'api.github.com'
        ,    path :'/repos/cwolves/jquery-imask/issues'
        , headers : {
            'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1521.3 Safari/537.36'
        }
    }, function(res){
        res.on('data',function(data){
            console.log(data+'');
    });
});