无法在私人仓库中使用个人访问令牌列出仓库 webhook

Question

I'm working on two repos, one is private and one is public. In the public repo, I can create a personal access token with repo/webhooks admin permissions and I can run the following command:

curl -si https://api.github.com/repos/{user}/{repo}/hooks -H "Authorization: token {token}"

and I get back [] , an empty list because there's no webhooks.

In the private repo, if I create a personal access token, even with all permissions, I always get:

{
  "message": "Not Found",
  "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/webhooks/repos#list-repository-webhooks"
}

What's going on here? Is it possible that programmatic access to webhooks is somehow disabled by the repo owner or something?

I can see other resources of the private repo with the token though, like /repos/{user}/{repo}/branches . It is specifically /hooks that does not work.

Answer 1

Found the problem. In order to access webhooks via the github API the token needs to be bound to an account with a role that has the Manage Webhooks permissions.

On my personal repo, I had the admin role which has that permission by default, on the private repo I had the write role which does not.