If you need to make unauthenticated calls but need to use a higher rate limit

associated with your OAuth application, you can send over your client ID and

secret in the query string.

<pre class="terminal">

$ curl -i https://api.github.com/users/whatever?client_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx&client_secret=yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Status: 200 OK

X-RateLimit-Limit: 12500

X-RateLimit-Remaining: 11966

</pre>

This method should only used for server-to-server calls. You should never share

your client secret with anyone or include it in client-side browser code.

Please [contact us](https://github.com/contact) to request white listed access

for your application. We prefer sites that setup OAuth applications for their

users.