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Asked: 2026-05-28T00:57:44+00:00

I wrote a js widget for listing one’s github repos on any website with

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I wrote a js widget for listing one’s github repos on any website with a single line of js:
http://gitview.logicalcognition.com

Currently gitview.js hits gitview.php (which i host remotely) which in turn hits api.github.com to pull user / repo info. Originally, I just did the XHR GET directly to api.github.com rather than through the proxy, but I hit the same origin policy.

I tried using CORS or JSONP, but according to http://developer.github.com/v3/ this only works if the originating domain “is registered as an OAuth Application”. I didn’t want to make developers do this just to use the widget.

Any suggestions? Am I missing something?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The documentation linked indicates a registered domain is needed for CORS (used if you wanted to do a direct XHR), but not JSON-P. With JSON-P, you’d insert a script tag like this programatically (using document.write or DOM manipulation):

    <script type="text/javascript"
        src="https://api.github.com/some_request?callback=foo"
></script>

    This will then invoke the global function foo with the returned data as an argument. Since this is a script tag and not an XHR request, the same-origin policy does not apply and CORS authorization is not required.

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