Use asset in a github release to modify a github pages website - javascript

I'm making a website to display a project that I've got. About once a week, this project generates a new release which has a file machine_friendly.csv. This file just contains some generated data (and is different every time).
I want to create a github pages website which a user can navigate to and see a prettified version of the machine_friendly.csv file. The problem is that github's CORS doesn't allow me to directly download the file. For example, this doesn't work:
React.useEffect(() => {
fetch('https://github.com/beyarkay/eskom-calendar/releases/download/latest/machine_friendly.csv')
.then(response => {
if (response.ok) return response.json()
throw new Error('Network response was not ok.')
})
.then(data => console.log(data.contents))
.catch(err => console.log(err));
}, []);
and gives CORS error messages:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at
https://github.com/beyarkay/eskom-calendar/releases/download/latest/machine_friendly.csv.
(Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ missing).
Status code: 302.
Is there any way of getting around this? I've tried uploading the file to a pastebin as well as to the github release, but none of the pastebins I've tried enable CORS for free. I've also tried some CORS proxies, but they either take too long or just don't work anymore. I also tried using github's API, but that also gives CORS problems.
Is there a service online that I can upload my small (<1MB) file to and download it later via javascript?

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I can get an Opaque answer only.
Problem is that I need to call a public API on a server with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin - I can try to convince site owner to add it, but how do I do it in the meantime ? I am trying to not run a proxy on my own domain. The data is personal data (electric power consumption), which I want the browser to download and process, and I do not want my server to see the users private API key, which is stored in localStorage only. At some point I want to it to become a true web app.
Fetch with no-cors mode gives me Opaque data, and with cors enabled I get:
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Any other way to call an API / Get data from a 3rd party site on the web ?
Here is example code:
fetch( 'https://www.eloverblik.dk', { method: 'GET', redirect: 'follow'})
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.catch( (error) => { console.error('Error:', error); })
Thanks for the help here.
Basically, the answer is, that it is not possible.
The workaround is to use a reverse proxy like nginx and add the header.
I have contacted the site owner and asked them to add the header. It is a public available API, that requires login with an API key you can generate on a website.
They do run another api server, giving anonymous access to public data. That one is run on cloudapp.net. The one where they "forgot" the header has personal electricity consumption measurements - Down to 15m intervals. It is hosted under t-msedge.net. Hope they will do the change, so I can do away with the proxy.

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I'm making an autocomplete function for a webpage where users can find information about cities and their airports by typing the first letters of the city/airport name. I use javascript fetch for receiving all the active airports from the API:
let airports;
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.then(data => airports = JSON.parse(data))
.catch(error => console.log(error.message));
It works locally but in case of jsfiddle.net i receive an error:
NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
I googled the problem but could only find the reason of such behavior and no solution so I end up with just hardcoding the response body into the fiddle. Any ways to fix it properly?
If you check the browser console, you will find this:
Mixed Content: The page at 'https://jsfiddle.net/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure resource 'http://api.travelpayouts.com/data/ru/airports.json'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
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The API Link: /api/todos
The API works just fine with Postman and VS code's API plugin. It also works perfectly fine on the localhost.
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Also the I see cors warning in the console:
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://mern-deploy-test-adib.herokuapp.com/api/todos. (Reason: CORS header ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ does not match ‘http://localhost:3000/’)
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Interestingly the API worked in localhost but after deploying it doesn't work with axios.
I have set cors origin: 'http://localhost:3000/'
And I checked the headers of both the fetch and axios GET request. They are literally the same.
The request header has Access-Control-Allow-Origin http://localhost:3000/
BTW my frontend is hosted on localhost:3000
So why is this happening?
Why is axios not working but fetch is.
Edit: here's the code for both axios and fetch request.
//fetch
fetch(`https://heroku-api-link/api/todos`)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(data => console.log(data))
.catch(err => console.log(err))
//axios
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.then(data => console.log(data))
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EDIT#2:
I tried an axios request using an editor on my phone (SPCK editor). The request was successful. I just don't get why it's not working from my pc.
I finally figured it out!!
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I am currently developing a web app, where most of the content is written in markdown. So for handling this, I thought I could create a github repo to host all of the markdown files and then use the fetch() api to grab the files from github.
My code looks like so:
fetch('https://github.com/erasabi/trekthroughs/blob/master/pen_testing/RickdiculouslyEasy.md')
.then(response => response.blob())
.then(result => console.log(result));
I am getting this error though when I do that:
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loading = false;
this.dataReceived = response;
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console.log({ error });
});
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In my project, I'm using Vue.js, Axios, and jQuery.
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Just use it like in the example below:
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