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Add ability to read token reported by `gh auth token`

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, python

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing token acquisition path and its environment-variable fallback, then consult the linked GitHub CLI documentation for gh auth token. Done means ghapi can use the token reported by that command as a fallback without breaking the current authentication behavior.

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Description

As official github cli tool has a nice command that exposes its token, this could also be used as a fallback mechanism by ghapi instead of using the less safe environment variable approach.

See https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_auth_token

Dominant language
Python
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
2

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