Cannot generate installation access token even though installation id is correct #22978

hamelsmu · 2019-03-17T05:22:13Z

hamelsmu
Mar 17, 2019

I’m confused as to why I cannot generate an installation access token. See the below two commands:

> curl -i -H "Authorization: Bearer <JWT> -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview+json" https://api.github.com/app/installations/754036

{ "id": 754036, "account": { "login": "hamelsmu", "id": 1483922, "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE0ODM5MjI=", "avatar_url": "https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/1483922?v=4", "gravatar_id": "", "url": "https://api.github.com/users/hamelsmu", "html_url": "https://github.com/hamelsmu", "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hamelsmu/followers", "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hamelsmu/following{/other_user}", "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hamelsmu/gists{/gist_id}", "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hamelsmu/starred{/owner}{/repo}", "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hamelsmu/subscriptions", "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hamelsmu/orgs", "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hamelsmu/repos", "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hamelsmu/events{/privacy}", "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/hamelsmu/received_events", "type": "User", "site_admin": true }, "repository_selection": "selected", "access_tokens_url": "https://api.github.com/installations/754036/access_tokens", "repositories_url": "https://api.github.com/installation/repositories", "html_url": "https://github.com/settings/installations/754036", "app_id": 27079, "target_id": 1483922, "target_type": "User", "permissions": { "issues": "write", "pull_requests": "write", "app_config": "read", "checks": "read", "contents": "read", "metadata": "read" }, "events": [ "issues", "project", "project_card", "project_column", "pull_request", "pull_request_review", "pull_request_review_comment" ], "created_at": "2019-03-16T04:57:54.000Z", "updated_at": "2019-03-16T17:03:35.000Z", "single_file_name": null }

However when I add _ access_tokens _ to the end of the url it returns the following:

> curl -i -H "Authorization: Bearer <JWT>" -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview+json" https://api.github.com/app/installations/754036/access_tokens HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 05:20:25 GMT Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 87 Server: GitHub.com Status: 404 Not Found X-GitHub-Media-Type: github.machine-man-preview; format=json Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload X-Frame-Options: deny X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Referrer-Policy: origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none' X-GitHub-Request-Id: C82A:9BB9:1AA2AFF:207EC5B:5C8DD919

{ "message": "Not Found", "documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3" }

Does anyone have any idea about this?

Answered by hamelsmu

Mar 20, 2019

This issue was solved because I made a mistake in the request,

the /access_tokens endpoint should be accessed via a POST request, and I was using GET. Per the documentation, this is done with

curl -i -X POST \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_JWT" \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview+json" \
https://api.github.com/app/installations/:installation_id/access_tokens

I just didn’t see the POST part when I was reading it. Thanks

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AndreaGriffiths11 · 2019-03-20T15:14:54Z

AndreaGriffiths11
Mar 20, 2019

Thank you for being here! Could you please send us the full output of a curl -v request that demonstrates the problem?

http://curl.haxx.se/

That should help us investigate the issue. Also, please make sure you mask any sensitive information like OAuth tokens and Authorization headers in the output of the curl command. Please send the output to https://github.com/contact. And include a link to this thread to give support some background on the ticket.

I hope this helps!

Best,
Andrea

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hamelsmu · 2019-03-20T20:51:33Z

hamelsmu
Mar 20, 2019
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This issue was solved because I made a mistake in the request,

the /access_tokens endpoint should be accessed via a POST request, and I was using GET. Per the documentation, this is done with

curl -i -X POST \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_JWT" \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview+json" \
https://api.github.com/app/installations/:installation_id/access_tokens

I just didn’t see the POST part when I was reading it. Thanks

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AndreaGriffiths11 · 2019-03-20T21:02:44Z

AndreaGriffiths11
Mar 20, 2019

Thanks so much, @hamelsmu for coming back to share what worked!

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