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So I'm trying to familiarize myself with the GitHub API. I'm using cURL commands to implement some of their basic functionality. I can get the basic authorization & repository creation correctly. Currently, I'm trying to create a file in a repository using their API & am facing the "message":"Not Found" error as the response.
Their documentation suggests this:
PUT /repos/:owner/:repo/contents/:pathI came up with this as the cURL equivalent:
curl -H 'Authorization: <token>' -d '{"path": "test.txt", "message": "Initial Commit", "committer": {"name": "<name>", "email": "<email>"}, "content": "bXkgbmV3IGZpbGUgY29udGVudHM=", "note":"Test Commit"}' https://api.github.com/repos/InViN-test/test_repo1/contents/test.txtI think the problem is with the API URL I'm using at the end, but I can't seem to figure out what the URL should look like.
This is what I used to create a repository:
curl -i -H 'Authorization: <token>' -d '{"name": "test_repo1", "message": "Initial Commit", "committer": {"name": "<name>", "email": "<email>"}, "content": "bXkgbmV3IGZpbGUgY29udGVudHM=", "note":"Test Commit"}' https://api.github.com/user/reposThe repository creation URL I used follows: user/repos as the syntax. Similarly, I've tried using user/repos/repo, but it didn't work.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
I've gone through various StackOverflow questions & many seem similar but none really offer an example so I can figure out where the mistake lies.
EDIT: Thanks to TimWolla for the answer.
Syntax of a working command to create a file in a repository using the GitHub API:
curl -i -X PUT -H 'Authorization: token <token_string>' -d '{"path": "<filename.extension>", "message": "<Commit Message>", "committer": {"name": "<Name>", "email": "<E-Mail>"}, "content": "<Base64 Encoded>", "branch": "master"}' https://api.github.com/repos/<owner>/<repository>/contents/<filename.extension>
My example:
curl -i -X PUT -H 'Authorization: token f94ce61613d5613a23770b324521b63d202d5645' -d '{"path": "test4.txt", "message": "Initial Commit", "committer": {"name": "Neil", "email": "neil@abc.com"}, "content": "bXkgbmV3IGZpbGUgY29udGVudHM=", "branch": "master"}' https://api.github.com/repos/InViN-test/test_repo1/contents/test4.txt
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You can dig that out of repo branches. Perhaps it is easier for you to use raw.github.com like this? raw.github.com/:user/:repo/:branch/:filename . You can easily combine these two approaches to figure out if some file exists and then to fetch it.
Log in to your GitHub account and click on Settings under your profile. Go to Developer Settings ->Personal Access Tokens. Generate a new token. Add a name and select the scope for the API access and click on Create Token.
Github APIs( or Github ReST APIs) are the APIs that you can use to interact with GitHub. They allow you to create and manage repositories, branches, issues, pull requests, and many more. For fetching publicly available information (like public repositories, user profiles, etc.), you can call the API.
When using curl you need to specify the correct HTTP Verb (PUT in this case) using the -X option:
curl -X PUT -H 'Authorization: …' yadayadaAlso using your example payload an error 500 showed up, this shortened payload worked fine:
{"message": "Initial Commit","content": "bXkgbmV3IGZpbGUgY29udGVudHM="}I don't know the actual reason for the Server error, though.
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