Checking if a repo is starred with GitHub API

Question

I'm currently attempting to check and see if a repo is starred by an authenticated user using the GitHub API (v3). I can successfully list the repos starred by the logged in user, but I can't seem to get it to work when checking if a repo is starred by the user.

For instance..

(GET) /user/starred?access_token=... correctly returns the full list of repos I have starred.

(GET) /user/starred/joynet/node?access_token=... always returns status 404, no matter what owner/repo combination I use or if I actually have that repo starred or not.

I should also note that I can't seem to access anything at /user/starred except (GET) /user/starred. Any request to PUT, DELETE, or POST to /user/starred/:owner/:repo returns a 404, no matter what I do.

Any idea how I'm supposed to be using this API? I've read the documentation, and this I believe I'm doing it correctly, but I just can't seem to get it work.

Answer 1

I was able to solve this problem. The issue was I skimmed the documentation and didn't see I had to request the repo scope during authorization to be able to modify stars :) Simply adding the "repo" scope fixed my issue!

GitHub briefly mentions their scopes here: http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/ but no where was it mentioned that starring needs the "repo" scope.