Allow authorized use of github API without revealing account secrets to clients.

Author: jdm

cgi-bin/githubapi.cgi

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# enable debugging
+import cgitb
+import cgi
+import urllib2
+from StringIO import StringIO
+import gzip
+import ConfigParser
+import base64
+cgitb.enable()
+
+print "Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8"
+print
+
+form = cgi.FieldStorage()
+url = urllib2.unquote(form.getfirst('url', ''))
+
+#data = {}
+#parts = url.split('?')
+#if len(parts) > 1:
+#    params = parts[1].split('&')
+#    for param in params:
+#        param_data = param.split('=')
+#        data[param_data[0]] = param_data[1]
+
+config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
+config.read('config')
+try:
+    user = config.get('github', 'username')
+    passw = config.get('github', 'password')
+except ConfigParser.NoSectionError:
+    user = None
+    passw = None
+
+req = urllib2.Request('https://api.github.com/%s' % url, None, {'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.raw',
+                                  'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip'})
+if user and passw:
+    base64string = base64.standard_b64encode('%s:%s' % (user, passw)).replace('\n', '')
+    req.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)
+
+f = urllib2.urlopen(req)
+if f.info().get('Content-Encoding') == 'gzip':
+    buf = StringIO(f.read())
+    f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=buf)
+print f.read()

config.sample

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+[github]
+username = github_username
+password = github_password
+

magic.js

@@ -409,7 +409,8 @@ function retrieveResults(category) {
        var curMap = ghMapping[i];
        var user = curMap.repo.split('/')[0];
        var name = curMap.repo.split('/')[1];
-      $.getJSON('https://api.github.com/repos/' + user + '/' + name + '/issues?labels=' + curMap.tag,
+       var apiCall = 'repos/' + user + '/' + name + '/issues?labels=' + curMap.tag;
+       $.getJSON('cgi-bin/githubapi.cgi?url=' + encodeURIComponent(apiCall),
                 null, function(data) {
          for (var d in data) {
            data[d].id = data[d].number;