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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

No source file or test is named. Reproduce the private-fork webhook case and inspect the GitHub Search API validation error; done means determining whether private child and parent repositories are supported and recording the resulting behavior or required follow-up.

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Description

I'm getting permissions issue when using this on a private fork of a private repo (hook is on the child, not the parent). Is that expected to work?

This is the message
Status 200

Uhh, error: {"message":"Validation Failed","errors":[{"message":"The listed users and repositories cannot be searched either because the resources do not exist or you do not have permission to view them.","resource":"Search","field":"q","code":"invalid"}],"documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3/search/"}

Dominant language
JavaScript
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663
Forks
62
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