`JSON readtable error` when creating a gist about gist.el HOT 12 CLOSED

Suspect this may be a duplicate of #36. If so, gist.el (or the appropriate gh-*.el) should catch this error and give a more meaningful message with a suggestion for remediation ("Add gist.github.com to the Elisp variable url-proxy-services and/or the OS environment variable no_proxy").

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Do you have 2 factory auth enabled?? That might be a problem because of it

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@arthurnn nope I don't :(

@PhilHudson I'm not using any proxy though.

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Ha I think I've managed to fix it. The problem was that I had mixed tabs and spaces in my ~/.gitconfig ... very weird.

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I was also getting same error. I removed Github username and auth token from .gitconfig file and next time when I ran gist-list, it asked again for Github username & password. But after that everything worked.

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I did everything mentioned in this issue but I'm still getting the JSON readtable error. I consistently used tabs in my ~/.gitconfig. When I call M-x gist-list, it asks for my username and my password but then stores my username and my password in ~/.gitconfig (no tokens anywhere).

I don't have 2FA enabled. This error appears whatever gist.el command I use.

I managed to fix the behaviour by manually setting github.password and github.oauth-token in ~/.gitconfig to a dedicated token, but probably gist.el should do this automatically? I'm installing both gh and gist from Melpa.

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This is happening for me now. Funny thing is it used to work fine, only recently it started breaking. Maybe a recent API update on github side?

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I have 2FA enabled.

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Also happening to me.

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One weird trick to fix this

• Ensured my .gitconfig used leading tabs instead of spaces [probably unnecessary]
• Ensured I had an up-to-date oauth token in my gitconfig under github.token, github.oauth_token, and github.password
• Ensured my url-privacy-level wasn't set to paranoid or a list containing agent [probably unnecessary]
• Manually typed my password when prompted instead of pasting it
• Killed and restarted the emacs daemon

Worked like a charm! 💯

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I am also getting the dreaded "JSON readtable error" message, when i run gist-list. This used to work. I have set my Personal Access Tokens, and am debugging the gh-url.el code, and I can see the token is being sent in the appropriate header. This is in gh-url-run-request . When I look at the return response from api.github.com, this is what I see:

`
HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Request forbidden by administrative rules. Please make sure your request has a User-Agent header (http://developer.github.com/v3/#user-agent-required). Check https://developer.github.com for other possible causes.
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`

It turns out I had an advice that was setting url-user-agent to nil. This was making the github API unhappy. Removing that advice allowed everything to proceed.

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interesting. I'll definitely update gh.el to ensure url-privacy-level and url-user-agent are locally set to acceptable values. Thanks so much for sharing !

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