Tom Larkworthy

libraries

Thank you so much for this!

It took some fiddling, but I managed to get it working for my "Provider.Quest" project over here - I'm now backing up all of my notebooks (see the bottom of each notebook).

https://observablehq.com/collection/@jimpick/provider-quest

Jim Pick

🥳 well done! is there anywhere you think I should improve the documentation?

I was confused about what permissions were needed for the GitHub token, and I needed to "bind" the secret on each notebook, which was non-obvious. I made a little function called backups() for the footer of each page. If I set it to backups(1) ... then it displays the UI for enableGithubBackups() so I can bind the token, and then I set it back to backups() when I'm done. That's the way I figured out how to do it, but there's probably a better way I'm guessing.

I somehow managed to avoid setting the secret for each. Though I am not sure how my way is different: https://observablehq.com/@endpointservices/footer-with-backups

I was trying to copy that. I had the secret on each notebook, but I had to "bind" it manually for each one.

the dispatchProxy hardcodes the secret name as github_secret. Are you using that name or a different one?

I'm using github_secret as the name.

I made a little screen recording to show how I have the bound secret in one notebook, but when I fork it, I have to re-bind the secret.

https://provider-quest.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/github-backups-bind-secret.mp4

Ahh. I realise the UI does not show it but the github_secret is automatically bound. I should update the UI to somehow indicate that was bound via hardcoding.

https://github.com/endpointservices/webcode.run/issues/4

Sorry, I did find a bug that meant hardcoded secrets were not synced if you were logged in, hopefully fixed now

Hello Tom, I am trying to backup a private notebook. I am unsure where to provide the API key for this to work outside of GH Action secrets. I assume this would happen after I login, however it wants me to publish the notebook first. Is there a workaround?

David Da Silva

Yeah vanilla webcode endpoints only work with publicly accessible notebooks. There is a feature to get it working for team notebooks but thats paid. https://observablehq.com/@endpointservices/webcode-private-endpoint