github-personal-access-token-generator-cli

A GitHub personal access token is pretty seamless to do from the web UI.

However, if you're a command line freak like me and want to create a personal access token quickly without having to leave the Terminal...

Installation

npm install github-personal-access-token-generator-cli -g

Usage

ghpat

You will be asked for

• Your username + password combination
• The various scopes / permissions you'd like your access token to have
• A reason for this personal access token - aka what's it going to be used for?
• A two-factor authentication code if you've turned on 2FA for GitHub

If successful your personal access token will be copied to your clipboard.

Uhhh not all the GitHub personal access token options are available?

Yeah, they're not.

This utility is mostly to create personal access tokens quickly - most of the time (I would argue), you need to set one of the "overriding" scopes rather than any of the "sub-scopes".

If this is something that's not the case for end-users, this can be added.