Create Github repository from API

Question

Please provide working code that creates a Github repository using the API.

I have tried different versions of the following:

curl 'https://api.github.com/users/repos?client_id= myusername&client_secret=abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890abcd'
curl -u 'myusername' https://api.github.com/users/repos -d '{"name":"my-new-repo"}'

But I always get the following error:

"{
  \"message\": \"Bad credentials\",
  \"documentation_url\": \"https://developer.github.com/v3\"
}"

Answer 1

The following works:

(without variables)

 curl -H "Authorization: token abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890abcd" --data '{"name":"name-foo"}' https://api.github.com/user/repos

(with variables)

 NAME='name-foo' TOK='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890abcd' BASE='https://api.github.com/' EXT='user/repos' URL=$BASE$EXT curl -H "Authorization: token $TOK" --data "{\\"name\\":\\"$NAME\\"}" $URL

One can use personal access tokens instead of OAuth .

The YOUR_TOKEN value in the "Authorization: token YOUR_TOKEN" section of the curl command can be obtained as follows.

1. Upper right corner, click User
2. Settings
3. Personal Access Tokens
4. For scopes, select Repos .
5. Create New Token .

For more details, click here and here .

Answer 2

This is how I did it in an organization, creating an internal repository:

curl -X POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/myorg/repos' \
  --header 'Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer xxx' \
  -d '{"name":"myrepo","visibility":"internal"}'