Getting 401 Unauthorized error while requasting GitHub API

Question

Good evening. My task is to create a website with react that will list through github users. I was following this instruction: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/users/users#get-a-user (for JS). My credentials:

async function searchUsers() {
  try {
    const octokit = new Octokit({
      auth: 'ghp_MY_PERSONAL_TOKEN',
      acceptstring: 'application/vnd.github.v3+json'
    })
    const response = await octokit.request(`GET /users/${name}`, {
      username: 'maria98kgm'
    });

    setUsers(response.data);
    setLoading(false);
    searchRepos();
    } 
    catch(e) {
      setLoading(false);
      setUsers('notFound');
      console.error('no such a user');
   }
}

Whenever i use it too long or push changes to github, it stops working and gives me 401 Unauthorized error:

I cannot solve it for two days already, please help.

Answer 1

Explanation of the error.

The 404 status code means your authentication data are not the good ones.

How to solve it.

• First, check your GitHub personal token is ok (i am guessing it is)
• Second, do the following : https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/building-github-apps/identifying-and-authorizing-users-for-github-apps