Some notes on how to authenticate with composer/satis against github oauth, so the rate limit of 60 will be raised op to 5000. Can also be used for travis-ci.

satis_github_auth.sh

# Create a new Token
curl -u 'githubuser' -d '{"note":"Your Application"}' https://api.github.com/authorizations

# It is: "ebab4dc37e654bb230a9c69ebcd5f38e9a81e210"
#{
#  "created_at": "2013-01-04T18:00:28Z",
#  "app": {
#    "url": "http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#oauth-authorizations-api",
#    "name": "Your Application (API)"
#  },
#  "url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/1047183",
#  "token": "ebab4dc37e654bb230a9c69ebcd5f38e9a81e210",
#  "updated_at": "2013-01-04T18:00:28Z",
#  "scopes": [
#  ],
#  "note": "Your Application",
#  "id": 1047183,
#  "note_url": null
#}

# Test token:
curl -I -H "Authorization: token ebab4dc37e654bb230a9c69ebcd5f38e9a81e210" https://api.github.com/rate_limit

#HTTP/1.1 200 OK
#Server: GitHub.com
#Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:45:59 GMT
#Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
#Status: 200 OK
#X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
#X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4935
#X-RateLimit-Reset: 1385575867
#Cache-Control: no-cache
#X-OAuth-Scopes: 
#X-GitHub-Media-Type: github.beta
#X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
#Content-Length: 291
#Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
#Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Link, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, #X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes
#Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
#X-GitHub-Request-Id: 52534AB6:2640:3A6D6D7:52962FD7
#Vary: Accept-Encoding

# Method 1:
# Add token to composer.json file
# This does not work for satis, but will work on Travis-Ci.
{
   "config":{
      "github-oauth":{
         "github.com":"ebab4dc37e654bb230a9c69ebcd5f38e9a81e210"
      }
   }
}


# For using on travis-ci use this.
# Copy Method1 Content to this file: .travis.composer.config.json

before_script:  
  # Set the GitHub OAuth token to make use of the 6000 per hour rate limit
  - "mkdir -p ~/.composer"
  - cp .travis.composer.config.json ~/.composer/config.json


#----------------


# Method 2:
# Works with local composer, as well as satis!

# Add the token to the users conposer config.
php composer.phar config --global github-oauth.github.com ebab4dc37e654bb230a9c69ebcd5f38e9a81e210




# Resources:
# https://github.com/rjocoleman/auto-updating-satis/blob/master/Boxfile
# http://blog.simplytestable.com/creating-and-using-a-github-oauth-token-with-travis-and-composer/
# http://alister.github.io/blog/2013/10/17/avoiding-composer-being-rate-limited-by-github/

Thanks so much for making that easy!