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The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

applications

Posts with mentions or reviews of applications. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
  • NextAuth.js+App Router+Prisma
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Dec 2023
    Go to this link https://github.com/settings/applications/new
  • Azure ChatGPT
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Nov 2023
    🟡 Development app setup Navigate to GitHub OAuth Apps setup https://github.com/settings/developers Create a New OAuth App https://github.com/settings/applications/new Fill in the following details Application name: Azure ChatGPT DEV Environment Homepage URL: http://localhost:3000 Authorization callback URL: http://localhost:3000/api/auth/callback/github 🟢 Production app setup Navigate to GitHub OAuth Apps setup https://github.com/settings/developers Create a New OAuth App https://github.com/settings/applications/new Fill in the following details Application name: Azure ChatGPT Production Homepage URL: https://YOUR-WEBSITE-NAME.azurewebsites.net Authorization callback URL: https://YOUR-WEBSITE-NAME.azurewebsites.net/api/auth/callback/github ⚠️ After completing app setup, ensure your environment variables locally and on Azure App Service are up to date.
  • How to build and deploy an AI Chatbot like ChatGPT without a credit card
    4 projects | dev.to | 18 Jul 2023
    Register a new oauth app on github from here
  • Git hub and check50
    1 project | /r/cs50 | 15 Feb 2023
    Maybe that's available for you to do again? You will be able to see which apps have access to your github account when you're logged in at: https://github.com/settings/applications
  • Omniauth without Devise
    2 projects | dev.to | 7 Feb 2023
    # https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth # https://github.com/settings/applications/new # echo > config/initializers/omniauth.rb # config/initializers/omniauth.rb Rails.application.config.middleware.use OmniAuth::Builder do provider :github, "GITHUB_ID", "GITHUB_SECRET" end
  • Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub” and users are being punished
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Dec 2022
    Ouch.

    If you're on Github, go to "https://github.com/settings/applications" and you can see, and revoke, any OAuth accesses.

    I just discovered that "Improbable" (the game engine backend company) had too much access, obtained because I once signed up to look at their SDK. I revoked that. (They used to be legit, but then they got involved with Yuga Labs, the Bored Ape crypto people, so trusting them is now questionable.)

  • Allow GitHub contributors to mint an NFT
    5 projects | dev.to | 11 Sep 2022
    Now, we need to create a GitHub OAuth app. You can do that from the Github Developer Settings and fill out the information like so:
  • How to Authenticate a Nuxt.js App with GitHub
    4 projects | dev.to | 1 Sep 2022
    We can create a GitHub application by navigating to the Settings > Developer settings > OAuth Apps from our profile or simply by clicking here, thus leading us automatically to where we can create the application. From there, we will add the GitHub redirect URL from the Appwrite application to the Authorization callback URL in the application.
  • Easily Serve Internal Documentation Behind OAuth Authentication
    6 projects | dev.to | 1 Jul 2022
    Visit the page to register a new app and provide the required details. Application Name: Docusaurus OAuth Example Homepage URL: Whatever heroku open opened in your browser Authorization callback URL: /oauth2/callback
  • How to use the GitHub rest API with SvelteKit
    2 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2022
    To set up an OAuth app with GitHub, go to Your Profile > Settings > Developer Settings > OAuth Apps > New OAuth App or alternatively, go to this link if you're already logged into GitHub.

installations

Posts with mentions or reviews of installations. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-10.
  • Programmatically deploy your GitHub Repo on Netlify
    3 projects | dev.to | 10 Jan 2024
    To create your connection between Netlify and GitHub you just need to go on netlify user settings and configure the connection with your GitHub account (grant access to all the repos to deploy further projects easily). After doing this, you can navigate to Github Application settings, click on configure, and copy the number appended at the end of the URL since that is your Installation ID. This process will be needed only once, and then you are set to go.
  • Unable to Connect a GitHub Repository to Cloudflare Pages
    1 project | /r/CloudFlare | 4 May 2023
    This page https://dash.cloudflare.com/36e5e954c996e147e789df6a1b716209/pages/new/provider/github says ' If your repository is not shown, configure repository access for the Cloudflare Pages app on GitHub. '
  • Fullstack Pulumi: Deploying the MERN Stack on DigitalOcean
    8 projects | dev.to | 14 Mar 2022
    Make sure you've installed the DigitalOcean GitHub app as described above—you should see it listed at https://github.com/settings/installations:
  • Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2021
    That's an interesting concept.

    Thinking about it for a bit, I'm sadly hesitant that it might need to be built as a browser extension or mobile app, rather than a website, because none of these services provide programmatically-accessible (even read-only) feeds of what you're looking for, so you'd need to scrape everything. This brings up two issues: 1) the headache of IP ratelimiting (and/or flat-out IP bans from trigger-happy systems optimized for fighting fraud/bots hosted on cloud infrastructure). IIUC there are proxy services that you can outsource the workaround problem to, but this is awkward to get behind in the face of 2), which is that users would need to input their actual usernames and passwords so that the service could request the account page with the details on it in order to scrape the data.

    Given that these are broadly web services poked at via HTTPS, you could potentially get everything you needed from a browser extension (as long as the service doesn't require you to set any HTTP headers that extensions aren't allowed to touch).

    The second possibility is using an app. Writing a thin layer that lets you craft custom HTTPS/whatever requests from a WebView would probably be the most straightforward approach.

    The main issue with both the extension and app approaches is that they code-dump both the idea and methodology of "here is how to do X" into the hands of the IQ-99 skiddie group (especially with an extension). So now you have more people running around scraping pages and whatnot and trying to figure out how to weaponize everything. Probably won't go anywhere (in terms of producing actual attacks), but the noise may potentially make your life harder.

    The least-complex solution seems to just be a giant boring list of links, for example:

    - https://myaccount.google.com/permissions

    - https://twitter.com/settings/connected_apps, https://twitter.com/settings/connected_accounts

    - https://github.com/settings/apps/authorizations, https://github.com/settings/applications, https://github.com/settings/installations, https://github.com/settings/apps, https://github.com/settings/developers, https://github.com/settings/tokens

    Hmm, that's kind of all over the place for some things. A single aggregate view that combines everything could definitely be very interesting...

  • Building GitHub Apps For Fun and Profit
    5 projects | dev.to | 5 Apr 2021
    Now you should have a private key, App ID (found at the top of your app settings page, https://github.com/settings/apps/yourappname), and Installation ID (via API or in post-install URL like https://github.com/settings/installations/1234567). You can use these to form API requests, either manually, via one of the Octokit libraries, or even as an action.
  • First steps using Cloudflare Pages
    3 projects | dev.to | 1 Feb 2021
    Look for it later in your GitHub Settings to add more repos, or to revoke access.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing applications and installations you can also consider the following projects:

backstage - Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals

apps

oauth

fullstack-pulumi-mern-digitalocean - A template repository that uses Pulumi to deploy a MERN application on the DigitalOcean App Platform.

Niek - My GitHub profile

developers

backstage-example - An example backstage project with GitHub auth

KoiPhish - A simple yet beautiful phishing proxy.

next-ai-chatbot - A full-featured, hackable Next.js AI chatbot built by Vercel Labs

yourappname