How to upload files to GitHub with GDscript?

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Godot Version

4.0

Question

I’m working on a game with user-generated levels and I want to use GitHub as a way to store the level files, which are JSON files. I have a repository made for this and a fine-grained access token that can access the repository.
However, I don’t know to do this. I probably need the HTTPRequest node. Can anyone help me?

2

I’m trying to understand this in my own head…

How do you want users to submit the JSON files?

To actually store the files you need to use git, but I don’t think you intend for your users to use git, or have access to git?

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I want to store them in a GitHub repository I have on my account, and when users click the share button, the game should make a commit on the repository to add the file.

4

So you want to give write-access to one of your github repositories to all your users.

I’m not sure, if this is a feasible approach, but you might find infos about how to do that on the github-side here:

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I like this approach, I was thinking you would need to package git inside Godot to interact with the repository. Setting up an app as a server seem like the better approach, but if there are usage limits that our poster here would need to worry about.

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What I was looking for was what code I needed in godot to do this

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I actually found a way to do what I want with JavaScript. Now I need to somehow do it in GDscript.
Here’s the code:

async function upload() {
  const message = 'Test commit';
  const content = 'Test message';
  const owner = 'My Username';
  const repo = 'My repo';
  const path = 'test.txt';
  const auth = 'My Access Token';

  const existingFile = await (await fetch(
    `https://api.github.com/repos/${owner}/${repo}/contents/${path}`,
    {
      method: 'GET',
      headers: {
        Accept: 'application/vnd.github+json',
        Authorization: `Bearer ${auth}`
      }
    }
  )).json();

  await (await fetch(
    `https://api.github.com/repos/${owner}/${repo}/contents/${path}`,
    {
      method: 'PUT',
      headers: {
        Accept: 'application/vnd.github+json',
        Authorization: `Bearer ${auth}`
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({
        message: message,
        content: btoa(content),
        sha: existingFile.sha,
      }),
    }
  )).json();
} upload()