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issue.md

closing-time

Description

Use the GitHub API to close an issue from the command line

Objectives

Learning Objectives

After completing this assignment, you should…

  • Better understand how to interact with external APIs
  • Understand how an API call might be authenticated

Performance Objectives

After completing this assignment, you be able to effectively use

  • cURL to make raw HTTP calls
  • Headers to authenticate API requests

Details

Deliverables

A closed GitHub issue.

Normal Mode

You will be assigned an issue on GitHub. Close it from the command line, and then paste the command you used in as a comment.

Hard Mode

Instead write a script (using e.g. system or backticks) that posts itself as a comment while closing.

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