How to create and publish a Release using GitHub API v3 with curl?

Question

According to the github api documentation (https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/) I need to send a post request including a payload that requires the tag_name. So I pr

Answer 1

Your access token misses the privilege public_repo.

Answer 2

I had this problem and found that removing the slash in the path after releases solved it:

https://api.github.com/repos/codeStyler87/test-tags/releases

not

https://api.github.com/repos/codeStyler87/test-tags/releases/

Either that or it's completely random like the OP.