How to get github token using username and password

Question

I am developing mobile apps using rhodes. I want to access private repo of github. I am having only username and password.

How to get token of given username and password.

Answer 1

You should use oauth instead: http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/

Answer 2

Once you have only login and password you can use them using basic auth. First of all, check if this code shows you json data of desired repo. Username and password must be separated by a colon.

curl -u "user:pwd" https://api.github.com/repos/user/repo

If succeeded you should consider doing this request from code.

import urllib2
import json
from StringIO import StringIO
import base64

username = "user@example.com"
password = "naked_password"

req = urllib2.Request("https://api.github.com/repos/user/repo")
req.add_header("Authorization", "Basic " + base64.urlsafe_b64encode("%s:%s" % (username, password)))
req.add_header("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.add_header("Accept", "application/json")
res = urllib2.urlopen(req)

data = res.read()
repository = json.load(StringIO(data))

Answer 3

Github users can create Personal Access Tokens at their application settings. You can use this token as an alternative to username/password in basic http authentication to call the API or to access private repositories on the github website.

Simply use a client that supports basic http authentication. Set the username equal to the token, and the password equal to x-oauth-basic. For example with curl:

curl -u <token>:x-oauth-basic https://api.github.com/user

See also https://developer.github.com/v3/auth/.

Answer 4

Send A POST request to /authorizations With headers

Content-Type: application/json Accept: application/json Authorization: Basic base64encode(<username>:<password>)

But remember to take Two factor Authentication in mind https://developer.github.com/v3/auth/#working-with-two-factor-authentication

Here You will receive a token which can be used for further request

Answer 5

Follow this guide at help.github.com. It describes how to find your api-token (it's under "Account Settings" > "Account Admin") and configuring git so it uses the token.