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I'm trying to edit an existing Gist through an API call, following the API docs, I'm doing a curl call like this:
curl -X PATCH -d'{"description": "the description for this gist", "files": {"file1.txt": {"content": "updated file contents"}}}' https://api.github.com/gists/5790365
But it keeps returning a 'Not Found' error.
Am I missing something here?
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asked Jun 16 '13 01:06
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Just figured out why it wasn't working.
It looks like you can't edit an anonymous gist, and in order to use it authenticated, you need to generate a token API for your account and specify that you want to use with gist in the scope, as shown here: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-oauth-token-for-command-line-use
After that you can make API calls passing the Authorization header with the token and everything should work as expected.
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answered Sep 28 '22 07:09
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