octokit.js: 404 Error: "message":"Not Found"

github authentication code, my-token is an user access token with all necessary privileges.

github.authenticate({type: 'oauth', token:`my-token`});

var owner = 'owner';
var repo = 'repo';

github.repos.getReleases({
    owner,
    repo
}, function(err, res) {
    var releases = res.data;
    if (releases.length == 0) {
        return;
    }
    var release = releases[0];
    var releaseId = release.id;
    console.log(release);
});

the code above is working perfectly.

 github.pullRequests.getAll({
      owner,
      repo,
      state: 'closed',
      sort: 'updated',
      direction: 'desc',
});

github.repos.getLatestRelease({ owner, repo});

these 2 above are giving me this errors

[Error: {"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3"}]

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Created 7 years ago
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Comments: 17 (7 by maintainers)

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@zeke this is the output in debug mode

REQUEST:  { host: 'api.github.com',
  port: 443,
  path: '/api/v3/repos/mikedeboer/node-github/tarball/master',
  method: 'get',
  headers: 
   { host: 'api.github.com',
     'content-length': '0',
     'user-agent': 'My-Cool-GitHub-App',
     accept: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json' },
  ca: undefined }
STATUS: 404
HEADERS: {"server":"GitHub.com","date":"Mon, 31 Jul 2017 08:43:14 GMT","content-type":"application/json; charset=utf-8","content-length":"77","connection":"close","status":"404 Not Found","x-ratelimit-limit":"60","x-ratelimit-remaining":"55","x-ratelimit-reset":"1501491387","x-github-media-type":"github.v3; format=json","access-control-expose-headers":"ETag, Link, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval","access-control-allow-origin":"*","content-security-policy":"default-src 'none'","strict-transport-security":"max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload","x-content-type-options":"nosniff","x-frame-options":"deny","x-xss-protection":"1; mode=block","x-runtime-rack":"0.005969","x-github-request-id":"F990:0CFB:1280B5A:25F5CA5:597EEDA2"}
[error] { [Error: {"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3"}]
[error]   message: '{"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3"}',
[error]   code: 404,
[error]   status: 'Not Found',
[error]   headers: 
[error]    { server: 'GitHub.com',
[error]      date: 'Mon, 31 Jul 2017 08:43:14 GMT',
[error]      'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
[error]      'content-length': '77',
[error]      connection: 'close',
[error]      status: '404 Not Found',
[error]      'x-ratelimit-limit': '60',
[error]      'x-ratelimit-remaining': '55',
[error]      'x-ratelimit-reset': '1501491387',
[error]      'x-github-media-type': 'github.v3; format=json',
[error]      'access-control-expose-headers': 'ETag, Link, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval',
[error]      'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
[error]      'content-security-policy': 'default-src \'none\'',
[error]      'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload',
[error]      'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff',
[error]      'x-frame-options': 'deny',
[error]      'x-xss-protection': '1; mode=block',
[error]      'x-runtime-rack': '0.005969',
[error]      'x-github-request-id': 'F990:0CFB:1280B5A:25F5CA5:597EEDA2' } } { owner: 'mikedeboer',
[error]   repo: 'node-github',
[error]   archive_format: 'tarball',
[error]   ref: 'master' } null
{ [Error: {"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3"}]
  message: '{"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3"}',
  code: 404,
  status: 'Not Found',
  headers: 
   { server: 'GitHub.com',
     date: 'Mon, 31 Jul 2017 08:43:14 GMT',
     'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
     'content-length': '77',
     connection: 'close',
     status: '404 Not Found',
     'x-ratelimit-limit': '60',
     'x-ratelimit-remaining': '55',
     'x-ratelimit-reset': '1501491387',
     'x-github-media-type': 'github.v3; format=json',
     'access-control-expose-headers': 'ETag, Link, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval',
     'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
     'content-security-policy': 'default-src \'none\'',
     'strict-transport-security': 'max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload',
     'x-content-type-options': 'nosniff',
     'x-frame-options': 'deny',
     'x-xss-protection': '1; mode=block',
     'x-runtime-rack': '0.005969',
     'x-github-request-id': 'F990:0CFB:1280B5A:25F5CA5:597EEDA2' } }

florent1933 on Jul 31, 2017

@florent1933 and @lsgrep I had a similar issue. Realized that my 2nd call to github api wasn’t getting authenticated. Once I passed in the right authentication keys and values in the headers, all went well.

Not sure how your app is setup but reading through my issue and solution might help.

gk-deploy on Aug 3, 2017

The redirect code only updates the path, although the hostname is changing too.

this should no longer be the case with @octokit/rest, the full URL is updated now: https://github.com/octokit/rest.js/blob/9003db1701979493dd2130a01a93c1d928b3d023/lib/request/request.js#L65

When I fix the redirect, the code downloads the redirect code downloads the entire tarball and returns it in a string

I’m still thinking about that, also considering how things should behave in the browser as it is the next milestone. But probably resolving with the link is the right thing to do.

gr2m on Jan 19, 2018

Plus the current implementation wouldn’t even allow to a higher level library that would use that internally.

Yea, this is the crux of it. It keeps me from using the library at all.

paulmelnikow on Dec 26, 2017

I try to stay as close as possible to the REST API, with all its arguable design flaws and leave better higher-level abstractions to higher level libraries like https://github.com/gr2m/octokit-release-asset-upload

But I agree that in this case the implementation is not ideal. Using the API with sth like curl at least returns a stream https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/contents/#get-archive-link. Plus the current implementation wouldn’t even allow to a higher level library that would use that internally.

So yeah, I think your 1st suggestion is the way to go: resolving with the link. Not yet sure if it should just resolve as string or as a JSON object like {"link": "https://codeload.github.com/badges/shields/legacy.tar.gz/20c29db7a645609defffdb576f51d3156d70d04a"}.

I’ll also check in with my fellow octokit maintainers on this one

gr2m on Dec 25, 2017

@florent1933 note that the 404 in your case is because you set pathPrefix which you shouldn’t unless you use GitHub Enterprise. It tries to get https://api.github.com/api/v3... and that doesn’t exist. I’ll get back to the original issue once I work more on tests

gr2m on Sep 17, 2017

Yeah it shows 404 but it’s most likely an authentication issue. I’d go through the examples folder and try running some of the really simple ones that require authentication.

kaizensoze on Aug 21, 2017