`/authorizations_url` is still a thing in the `/` endpoint under `2026-03-10` contrary to the documentation
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 63/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- openapi
- Domain
- api
Research direction
Start by locating the OpenAPI description for the GET / endpoint and compare its 2026-03-10 representation with the breaking-change documentation. Check how the /authorizations endpoint is represented and whether authorizations_url remains in the root response description. Done means the API description is consistent with the documented removal, with relevant validation passing if available.
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Description
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/about-the-rest-api/breaking-changes?apiVersion=2026-03-10 says:
Remove authorizations_url from the API root (GET /) The OAuth Authorization API has been deprecated since 2020.
So, why do I still see it advertised?
% curl -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' -v https://api.github.com
* Host api.github.com:443 was resolved.
* IPv6: (none)
* IPv4: 140.82.112.5
* Trying 140.82.112.5:443...
* Connected to api.github.com (140.82.112.5) port 443
* ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
* CApath: none
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Unknown (8):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-CHACHA20-POLY1305-SHA256 / [blank] / UNDEF
* ALPN: server accepted h2
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=*.github.com
* start date: Jul 2 00:00:00 2026 GMT
* expire date: Sep 29 23:59:59 2026 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "api.github.com" matched cert's "*.github.com"
* issuer: C=GB; O=Sectigo Limited; CN=Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV E36
* SSL certificate verify ok.
* using HTTP/2
* [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://api.github.com/
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: GET]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: api.github.com]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [user-agent: curl/8.7.1]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: */*]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [x-github-api-version: 2026-03-10]
> GET / HTTP/2
> Host: api.github.com
> User-Agent: curl/8.7.1
> Accept: */*
> X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10
>
* Request completely sent off
< HTTP/2 200
< date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:57:00 GMT
< cache-control: public, max-age=60, s-maxage=60
< vary: Accept,Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With
< x-github-api-version-selected: 2022-11-28
< access-control-expose-headers: ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, Deprecation, Sunset, Warning
< access-control-allow-origin: *
< strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
< x-frame-options: deny
< x-content-type-options: nosniff
< x-xss-protection: 0
< referrer-policy: origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
< content-security-policy: default-src 'none'
< server: github.com
< content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< x-github-media-type: github.v3; format=json
< etag: W/"4f825cc84e1c733059d46e76e6df9db557ae5254f9625dfe8e1b09499c449438"
< accept-ranges: bytes
< x-ratelimit-limit: 60
< x-ratelimit-remaining: 59
< x-ratelimit-used: 1
< x-ratelimit-resource: core
< x-ratelimit-reset: 1787335024
< content-length: 2396
< x-github-request-id: EC51:D6220:10C4771:382890A:6A888360
< x-github-edge-region: iad
<
{
"current_user_url": "https://api.github.com/user",
"current_user_authorizations_html_url": "https://github.com/settings/connections/applications{/client_id}",
"authorizations_url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations",
"code_search_url": "https://api.github.com/search/code?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}",
"commit_search_url": "https://api.github.com/search/commits?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}",
"emails_url": "https://api.github.com/user/emails",
"emojis_url": "https://api.github.com/emojis",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/events",
"feeds_url": "https://api.github.com/feeds",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/user/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/user/following{/target}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/gists{/gist_id}",
"hub_url": "https://api.github.com/hub",
"issue_search_url": "https://api.github.com/search/issues?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}",
"issues_url": "https://api.github.com/issues",
"keys_url": "https://api.github.com/user/keys",
"label_search_url": "https://api.github.com/search/labels?q={query}&repository_id={repository_id}{&page,per_page}",
"notifications_url": "https://api.github.com/notifications",
"organization_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/{org}",
"organization_repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/{org}/repos{?type,page,per_page,sort}",
"organization_teams_url": "https://api.github.com/orgs/{org}/teams",
"public_gists_url": "https://api.github.com/gists/public",
"rate_limit_url": "https://api.github.com/rate_limit",
"repository_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repo}",
"repository_search_url": "https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}",
"current_user_repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/user/repos{?type,page,per_page,sort}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/user/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"starred_gists_url": "https://api.github.com/gists/starred",
"topic_search_url": "https://api.github.com/search/topics?q={query}{&page,per_page}",
"user_url": "https://api.github.com/users/{user}",
"user_organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/user/orgs",
"user_repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/users/{user}/repos{?type,page,per_page,sort}",
"user_search_url": "https://api.github.com/search/users?q={query}{&page,per_page,sort,order}"
}
* Connection #0 to host api.github.com left intact
% curl -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' -v https://api.github.com/authorizations
* Host api.github.com:443 was resolved.
* IPv6: (none)
* IPv4: 140.82.112.6
* Trying 140.82.112.6:443...
* Connected to api.github.com (140.82.112.6) port 443
* ALPN: curl offers h2,http/1.1
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
* CApath: none
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Unknown (8):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* (304) (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* (304) (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / AEAD-CHACHA20-POLY1305-SHA256 / [blank] / UNDEF
* ALPN: server accepted h2
* Server certificate:
* subject: CN=*.github.com
* start date: Jul 2 00:00:00 2026 GMT
* expire date: Sep 29 23:59:59 2026 GMT
* subjectAltName: host "api.github.com" matched cert's "*.github.com"
* issuer: C=GB; O=Sectigo Limited; CN=Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV E36
* SSL certificate verify ok.
* using HTTP/2
* [HTTP/2] [1] OPENED stream for https://api.github.com/authorizations
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:method: GET]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:scheme: https]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:authority: api.github.com]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [:path: /authorizations]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [user-agent: curl/8.7.1]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [accept: */*]
* [HTTP/2] [1] [x-github-api-version: 2026-03-10]
> GET /authorizations HTTP/2
> Host: api.github.com
> User-Agent: curl/8.7.1
> Accept: */*
> X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10
>
* Request completely sent off
< HTTP/2 404
< content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< x-github-media-type: github.v3; format=json
< access-control-expose-headers: ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, X-GitHub-Edge-Region, Deprecation, Sunset
< access-control-allow-origin: *
< strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
< x-frame-options: deny
< x-content-type-options: nosniff
< x-xss-protection: 0
< referrer-policy: origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
< content-security-policy: default-src 'none'
< vary: Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With
< server: github.com
< date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:59:36 GMT
< x-ratelimit-limit: 60
< x-ratelimit-remaining: 57
< x-ratelimit-used: 3
< x-ratelimit-resource: core
< x-ratelimit-reset: 1787335024
< content-length: 106
< x-github-request-id: EC61:A4D59:1090247:3763643:6A8883F8
< x-github-edge-region: iad
<
```json
{
"message": "Not Found",
"documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest",
"status": "404"
}
* Connection #0 to host api.github.com left intact
- This is follow up to https://github.com/github/docs/issues/19279
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