Fetch data from private Github repo to shinyapps.io

Eric_Krantz · December 9, 2024, 10:36pm

I've successfully deployed an app to Shinyapps.io that uses httr to read data from a public Github repo and plots it for the client.

I am now wanting to do the same using a private repo, and cannot figure out if it is even possible. Similar questions that weren't answered leads me to think it isn't possible yet:

I've generated a key and secret according to this, and have tried using the code but it doesn't even work from my local machine, so I'm missing something:

github.com

r-lib/httr/blob/main/demo/oauth2-github.r

library(httr)

# 1. Find OAuth settings for github:
#    http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/
oauth_endpoints("github")

# 2. To make your own application, register at
#    https://github.com/settings/developers. Use any URL for the homepage URL
#    (http://github.com is fine) and  http://localhost:1410 as the callback url
#
#    Replace your key and secret below.
myapp <- oauth_app("github",
  key = "56b637a5baffac62cad9",
  secret = "8e107541ae1791259e9987d544ca568633da2ebf"
)

# 3. Get OAuth credentials
github_token <- oauth2.0_token(oauth_endpoints("github"), myapp)

# 4. Use API

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This seems like a very common thing that people would do, but I'm not finding much info (like a step-by-step guide for non-developers).

Thanks for any help! -Eric

Gabor · December 9, 2024, 10:46pm

You could use the gh package to call the GitHub API, with a personal access token. See the package docs.

Eric_Krantz · December 10, 2024, 11:05pm

This would still require me to send my Github PAT to shinyapps.io, right? Using the gh package to access a private repo still requires a PAT, which cannot be gotten remotely by the app so must be sent along with the app?