diff --git a/ghapi/__init__.py b/ghapi/__init__.py
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+++ b/ghapi/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
diff --git a/ghapi/api.py b/ghapi/api.py
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+++ b/ghapi/api.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import urlparse
+from django.http import QueryDict
+from ghapi.linkheader import parse_link_value
+import requests
+
+def get_next_page(response):
+    link = response.headers.get('link', None)
+    if not link:
+        return None
+    output = parse_link_value(link)
+    for url, info in output.items():
+        if info.get('rel', None) == 'next':
+            return QueryDict(urlparse.urlparse(url).query)['page']
+    return None
+
+class GitHub(object):
+    def __init__(self, token=None):
+        headers = {}
+        if token:
+            headers['Authorization'] = 'token %s' % token
+        self.session = requests.session(headers=headers)
+
+    def get(self, path, params=None):
+        """
+        Gets a resource, eg 'users/ojii'.
+
+        Returns tuple (jsondata, response)
+        """
+        if params is None:
+            params = {}
+        params['per_page'] = 100
+        response = self.session.get('https://api.github.com/%s' % path, params=params)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        return response.json, response
+
+    def get_iter(self, path, params=None):
+        """
+        Returns an iterator over a resource, eg 'repos/divio/django-cms/watchers' that automatically handles
+        pagination.
+        """
+        data, response = self.get(path, params)
+        for thing in data:
+            yield thing
+        next_page = get_next_page(response)
+        if next_page:
+            params['page'] = next_page
+            for thing in self.get(path, params):
+                yield thing
diff --git a/ghapi/linkheader.py b/ghapi/linkheader.py
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+++ b/ghapi/linkheader.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import re
+
+TOKEN = r'(?:[^\(\)<>@,;:\\"/\[\]\?={} \t]+?)'
+QUOTED_STRING = r'(?:"(?:\\"|[^"])*")'
+PARAMETER = r'(?:%(TOKEN)s(?:=(?:%(TOKEN)s|%(QUOTED_STRING)s))?)' % locals()
+LINK = r'<[^>]*>\s*(?:;\s*%(PARAMETER)s?\s*)*' % locals()
+COMMA = r'(?:\s*(?:,\s*)+)'
+LINK_SPLIT = r'%s(?=%s|\s*$)' % (LINK, COMMA)
+
+def _unquotestring(instr):
+    if instr[0] == instr[-1] == '"':
+        instr = instr[1:-1]
+        instr = re.sub(r'\\(.)', r'\1', instr)
+    return instr
+def _splitstring(instr, item, split):
+    if not instr:
+        return []
+    return [ h.strip() for h in re.findall(r'%s(?=%s|\s*$)' % (item, split), instr)]
+
+link_splitter = re.compile(LINK_SPLIT)
+
+def parse_link_value(instr):
+    """
+    Given a link-value (i.e., after separating the header-value on commas), 
+    return a dictionary whose keys are link URLs and values are dictionaries
+    of the parameters for their associated links.
+    
+    Note that internationalised parameters (e.g., title*) are 
+    NOT percent-decoded.
+    
+    Also, only the last instance of a given parameter will be included.
+    
+    For example, 
+    
+    >>> parse_link_value('</foo>; rel="self"; title*=utf-8\'de\'letztes%20Kapitel')
+    {'/foo': {'title*': "utf-8'de'letztes%20Kapitel", 'rel': 'self'}}
+    
+    """
+    out = {}
+    if not instr:
+        return out
+    for link in [h.strip() for h in link_splitter.findall(instr)]:
+        url, params = link.split(">", 1)
+        url = url[1:]
+        param_dict = {}
+        for param in _splitstring(params, PARAMETER, "\s*;\s*"):
+            try:
+                a, v = param.split("=", 1)
+                param_dict[a.lower()] = _unquotestring(v)
+            except ValueError:
+                param_dict[param.lower()] = None
+        out[url] = param_dict
+    return out
diff --git a/ghapi/middleware.py b/ghapi/middleware.py
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+++ b/ghapi/middleware.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from django.utils.functional import SimpleLazyObject
+from ghapi.api import GitHub
+from social_auth.db.django_models import UserSocialAuth
+
+
+def get_github(request):
+    if not request.user.is_authenticated():
+        return GitHub()
+    try:
+        social = UserSocialAuth.objects.get(provider='github', user_id=request.user.pk)
+    except UserSocialAuth.DoesNotExist:
+        return GitHub()
+    token = social.tokens.get('access_token', None)
+    return GitHub(token)
+
+
+class GithubAPIMiddleware(object):
+    def process_request(self, request):
+        request.github = SimpleLazyObject(lambda  : get_github(request))
+
diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
index 0613f02..23a7373 100644
--- a/settings.py
+++ b/settings.py
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
     'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
+    'ghapi.middleware.GithubAPIMiddleware',
 ]
 
 TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = [