apply token via auth adapter

github_activity/auth.py

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from requests.auth import AuthBase
+
+
+class TokenAuth(AuthBase):
+    """Apply Bearer token auth to request
+
+    Requests doesn't respect Authorization header reliably
+    unless applied via `auth` adapter.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, token):
+        self.token = token
+
+    def __call__(self, r):
+        # add token to auth
+        r.headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {self.token}"
+        return r

github_activity/github_activity.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import pytz
 import requests
 
+from .auth import TokenAuth
 from .cache import _cache_data
 from .graphql import GitHubGraphQlQuery
 
@@ -781,11 +782,12 @@ def _get_datetime_and_type(org, repo, datetime_or_git_ref, auth):
             )
 
 
-def _get_datetime_from_git_ref(org, repo, ref, auth):
+def _get_datetime_from_git_ref(org, repo, ref, token):
     """Return a datetime from a git reference."""
-    headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer %s" % auth}
+    auth = TokenAuth(token)
     url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{org}/{repo}/commits/{ref}"
-    response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
+    # prevent requests from using netrc
+    response = requests.get(url, auth=auth)
     response.raise_for_status()
     return dateutil.parser.parse(response.json()["commit"]["committer"]["date"])
 

github_activity/graphql.py

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 import requests
 from tqdm.auto import tqdm
 
+from .auth import TokenAuth
+
 comments_query = """\
         comments(last: 100) {
           edges {
@@ -136,8 +138,8 @@ def __init__(self, query, display_progress=True, auth=None):
         self.query = query
 
         # Authentication
-        auth = auth or os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN")
-        if not auth:
+        token = auth or os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN")
+        if not token:
             raise ValueError(
                 "Either the environment variable GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN or the "
                 "--auth flag or must be used to pass a Personal Access Token "
@@ -146,7 +148,7 @@ def __init__(self, query, display_progress=True, auth=None):
                 "working with a public repository, you don’t need to set any "
                 "scopes on the token you create."
             )
-        self.headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer %s" % auth}
+        self.auth = TokenAuth(token)
 
         self.gql_template = gql_template
         self.display_progress = display_progress
@@ -183,7 +185,7 @@ def request(self, n_pages=100, n_per_page=50):
             ii_request = requests.post(
                 "https://api.github.com/graphql",
                 json={"query": ii_gql_query},
-                headers=self.headers,
+                auth=self.auth,
             )
             if ii_request.status_code != 200:
                 raise Exception(