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Re:Show HN: Get paid in GitHub stars for your open source work by z1mm32m4n on Monday July 25, 2016 @09:19PM (#12162749)
Dang, the curse of GitHub OAuth granularity strikes again!

> public_repo:

> Grants read/write access to code, commit statuses, collaborators, and deployment statuses for public repositories and organizations. Also required for starring public repositories.

Source: https://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/

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Re:Show HN: Get paid in GitHub stars for your open source work by siddharthkp on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @01:58AM (#12163628)
Yes :(

I tried to find a better way to do that, but public_repo is the least granular permission that github provides.

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Re:Show HN: Get paid in GitHub stars for your open source work by rajasimon on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @03:51AM (#12163976)
get rid of write with (no scope)
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