How to access GitHub API using personal access tokens in shell script? - bash

Question

how is it going?
So I used a bash script to create a remote repository using a password to access a endpoint like this:
NEWVAR="{\"name\":\"$githubrepo\",\"private\":\"true\"}"
curl -u $USERNAME https://api.github.com/user/repos -d "$NEWVAR"
However, GitHub is going to not allow developers to access endpoints using passwords anymore. So my question is how do I create a remote repository using a personal access token?

Answer 1

use --header to transmit authorization:
#!/usr/bin/env sh
github_user='The GitHub user name'
github_repo='The repository name'
github_oauth_token='The GitHub API auth token'
# Create the JSON data payload arguments needed to create
# a GitHub repository.
json_data="$(
jq \
--null-input \
--compact-output \
--arg name "$github_repo" \
'{$name, "private":true}'
)"
if json_reply="$(
curl \
--fail \
--request POST \
--header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \
--header "Authorization: token $github_oauth_token" \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data "$json_data" \
'https://api.github.com/user/repos'
)"; then
# Save the JSON answer of the repository creation
printf '%s' "$json_reply" >"$github_repo.json"
printf 'Successfully created the repository: %s\n' "$github_repo"
else
printf 'Could not create the repository: %s\n' "$github_repo" >&2
printf 'The GitHub API replied with this JSON:\n%s\n' "$json_reply" >&2
fi
See my answer here for a featured implementation example:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/57634322/7939871