I'm trying to clone all of my repos at once to my computer, all of which are private. I've tried countless one-liners and scripts (namely, the ones here and here), but none of them work.
Initially I would get errors back about JSON not being able to parse the response, which I eventually realized was because the response was empty since I had no public repos. When I made a test public repo, it would return a JSON object with the info for that specific repo, but none of the private ones. From what I understand, I need to pass both my username and an access token to GitHub, in which the access token was generated at Settings > Developer settings > Personal access tokens.
I've tried both of the following formats to no avail:
curl -i -u [[USERNAME]]:[[TOKEN]] -s https://api.github.com/users/[[USERNAME]]/repos?per_page=100 [[...]]
curl -i -u [[USERNAME]] -s https://api.github.com/users/[[USERNAME]]/repos?per_page=100&access_token=[[TOKEN]] [[...]]
The [[...]] part that follows is various code snippets like the ones in the links above. I believe these parts are fine, as they clone public repos without any issues, and rather the issue lies in me not being able to see my private repos despite having an access token. It is important to note that when you generate the access token, you define the scopes for what it can do, and I've defined mine with full access to everything, including repo, which should grant it control over private repos.
Additionally, sometimes when I would try the command above, I would get the following response:
HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Server: GitHub.com
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:08:01 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 93
Status: 401 Unauthorized
X-GitHub-Media-Type: github.v3; format=json
X-RateLimit-Limit: 60
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 41
X-RateLimit-Reset: 1507884238
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Link, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: deny
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Runtime-rack: 0.060685
X-GitHub-Request-Id: D038:4E67:1349CC:2CB494:59E07461
{
"message": "Bad credentials",
"documentation_url": "https://developer.github.com/v3"
}
Despite knowing that my credentials are just fine.
Does anyone have any idea what's going wrong for me? I've been running circles around this for hours and have come up empty.
