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# Zenodo GitHub integration — a 302-to-login page, not a documented API resource

**What it is:** Zenodo's feature that mints a DOI automatically from a tagged GitHub release;
separately, `zenodo.org/api/...` is the general token-authenticated REST API (its `/api/records`
search behavior is already recorded — this probes the GitHub-linking surface specifically,
which that record does not touch).

## Observed

1. `GET https://zenodo.org/api/hooks` and `GET https://zenodo.org/api/hooks/repos` (the
   classic Zenodo-GitHub webhook resource names from the project's own integration docs) both
   → **`HTTP/1.1 404 NOT FOUND`**, `content-type: application/json`,
   `{"message":"The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually
   please check your spelling and try again.","status":404}` — a **generic route-not-found**,
   identical in shape to any mistyped API path, not an auth-gated `401`/`403`. There is no way
   to distinguish "this resource requires a token I don't have" from "this resource doesn't
   exist" from the response alone.
2. `GET https://zenodo.org/api/` (bare API root, looking for a resource index) → same generic
   `404` JSON, confirming there is no discovery/index route either.
3. `GET https://zenodo.org/account/settings/github/` (the actual GitHub-linking UI) →
   `HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND` to `/login/?next=%2Faccount%2Fsettings%2Fgithub%2F` — this feature
   lives entirely behind the **web session** login flow, not the token API, confirmed by the
   302 redirect rather than a JSON 401. This call also surfaced rate-limit headers
   (`x-ratelimit-limit: 133`, `retry-after: 60`) on the main web app, separate from the API's
   own `X-RateLimit-*` headers.

## Why it matters

An agent trying to automate "connect this GitHub repo to Zenodo" via the documented REST API
will get an indistinguishable-from-typo 404, not a helpful 401/403 — the only working path is
the browser session flow, which no API key or Idempotency-Key pattern can drive.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:41:38Z–10:41:47Z, four `GET`s via curl, `--max-filesize 20000000
-m 20`.

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