[GitHub API] Deprecation notice for authentication via URL query parameters

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 11/02/2020 8:30 pm, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-02-07 at 18:28:58 -0800, The FreeBSD Project wrote:
>> Hello there!
>>
>> On February 8th, 2020 at 02:28 (UTC) your application (Portscout) used its `client_id` and `client_secret` (with the User-Agent portscout/0.8.1) as part of a set of query parameters to access an endpoint through the GitHub API:
>>
>> https://api.github.com/repositories/1460612/releases/latest
>>
>> Please use Basic Authentication instead as using OAuth credentials in query parameters has been deprecated and will be removed July 1st, 2020.
>>
>> Depending on your API usage, we'll be sending you this email reminder at most once every 3 days.
>>
>> Visit https://developer.github.com/changes/2019-11-05-deprecated-passwords-and-authorizations-api/#authenticating-using-query-parameters for more information.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> The GitHub Team
> 
> Could some kind soul forward that to whoever is running portscout please?
> 
> Thanks!
> Uli

Already in progress:

https://github.com/freebsd/portscout/issues/8

:)