get-github-auth-token

Retrieves the running user's GitHub authentication token. 🪙

Usage

npm i get-github-auth-token

import { getGitHubAuthToken } from "get-github-auth-token";

const auth = await getGitHubAuthToken("Hello, world! 💖");

if (auth.succeeded) {
	console.log("Token:", auth.token);
} else {
	console.error("Oh no:", auth.error);
}

getGitHubAuthToken attempts to find a GitHub auth token from the following places, in order:

1. process.env.GH_TOKEN
2. Executing gh auth token as a child process

Contributors

Josh Goldberg ✨ 💻 🖋 📖 🤔 🚇 🚧 📆 🔧

💙 This package was templated with create-typescript-app.