First stab at writing a central utils function for GitHub API calls.

[ewels]

Uses authentication from local gh CLI or a supplied bearer token if found.

Done to address #1496

Bit scared it'll break something, so ideally needs extensive testing.

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[ewels]

Might be worth looking into doing API requests using a shared Session: https://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/

See also: https://requests-cache.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_guide/general.html#sessions

Could then just define the auth once for the whole run, and might be faster when we're doing a lot of calls to the GitHub API.

[ewels]

Might be worth looking into doing API requests using a shared Session

Leave this for another day I think. Especially as we may rewrite how the modules code works, so drop the number of GitHub API calls that we're doing anyway.

[maxulysse]

to install locally
pip3 install --upgrade --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/ewels/nf-core-tools.git@actions-auth-api

[maxulysse]

Works locally.
And on GHA:
https://github.com/nf-core/sarek/runs/6368068853?check_suite_focus=true

(lint fails, but we're not hitting limit of API calls anymore)

[maxulysse]

<3

[ewels]

Thank you for the help @mirpedrol!