GitHub/GH Client

Installation

https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.41.0

wget https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/download/v2.41.0/gh_2.41.0_linux_amd64.deb
dpkg -i gh_2.41.0_linux_amd64.deb

Really really old version:

pip3 install gh

Doc

https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_api

Login

gh auth status

$ gh auth status
github.com
  X Failed to log in to github.com account YOUR-USER (/home/user/.config/gh/hosts.yml)
  - Active account: true
  - The token in /home/user/.config/gh/hosts.yml is invalid.
  - To re-authenticate, run: gh auth login -h github.com
  - To forget about this account, run: gh auth logout -h github.com -u YOUR-USER

GH_TOKEN

PRIVATE_KEY='private_key.pem'
APP_ID='12345'
INSTALLATION_ID='54321'

JWT=`./make-jwt.py $PRIVATE_KEY $APP_ID`
GH_TOKEN=`curl -s --request POST --url "https://api.github.com/app/installations/$INSTALLATION_ID/access_tokens" --header "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" --header "Authorization: Bearer $JWT" --header "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" | python -c "import sys, json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['token'])"`
echo "export GH_TOKEN=$GH_TOKEN"

See make-jwt.py
 
 
api
 gh api

Action Runners
 https://docs.github.com/en/rest/actions/self-hosted-runners?apiVersion=2022-11-28

List
gh api /orgs/ORG/actions/runners

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