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Why would you ever want to share a valid Github API key publicly?

• remmelt 10y ago
  Continuous development, e.g. Jenkins? (Please don’t do this)
  • jayshua 10y ago
    Why not?
    • arjie 10y ago
      Out of curiosity, why not a deploy user? https://developer.github.com/guides/managing-deploy-keys/ https://developer.github.com/guides/managing-deploy-keys/
• Klathmon 10y ago
  It's been a while, but IIRC it was a key with no permissions used on a CI server to get around github's API usage limits. It probably wasn't the best idea, but it was the only "secret" needed in the whole project and I didn't want to maintain a way of managing secrets in a public project for a pointless key. In the end I did just that, and looking back it was the better choice, but at the time it was annoying.
  • Cyphase 10y ago
    "... used ... to get around github's API usage limits." I wonder why they'd want to invalidate that. :)