How to set GITHUB_TOKEN?

[Glusk]

I'm confused as to how to pass the GITHUB_TOKEN to your action. Is it as simple as adding a new Personal access token to settings -> tokens -> Personal access tokens to my GitHub account? ^^

[tenhobi]

Hi @Glusk2 ✋, thanks for opening an issue!

The GITHUB_TOKEN is provided by GitHub itself. You don't have to do anything. 👍

For other tokens, for example, to some app, you would provide it using Personal access tokens.

[koppor]

@Glusk2 You can add a text to the README.md.

[Glusk]

For other tokens, for example, to some app, you would provide it using Personal access tokens.

So I simply take an OAuth token (generated on GitHub via Personal access token util or provided by a third party service) and copy it to my secrets store, refering to it as ${{ secrets.<my_awesome_token>}} ?

[tenhobi]

@Glusk2 for thirth party services that is correct – you have to add the key to Personal access tokens and you can use it like secrets.<my_token>.

GitHub automatically provides secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN for you.

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For more information, read https://help.github.com/en/github/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/virtual-environments-for-github-actions#creating-and-using-secrets-encrypted-variables

[Glusk]

For more information, read https://help.github.com/en/github/automating-your-workflow-with-github-actions/virtual-environments-for-github-actions#creating-and-using-secrets-encrypted-variables

@tenhobi @koppor
I think that link should be added to the README file but I'm not quite sure where to put it. :)

Perhaps as a side note under the Inputs table?

[ZPascal]

I'm closing the issue because I think the use of tokens, permissions, and secrets is in general already documented here and in the GitHub upstream documentation. Feel free to reopen it if needed.