help needed: 404 when creating PR using GITHUB_TOKEN

[flavianmissi]

What happened?

I'm trying to create a pull request from a Github action and I'm getting a 404.
This is the action in question, and here is the relevant code.

The latest workflow run is using the GITHUB_TOKEN to authorise with the API.

Here's the relevant code snippet:

// config.token comes from the action yaml, defaults to github.token
let octokit = new Octokit({auth: config.token})
const response = await octokit.request(`POST /repos/${owner}/${repo}/pulls`, {
  owner: owner,
  repo: repo,
  head: branchname,
  base: base,
}).catch(console.log)

What did you expect to happen?

I expected octokit to be able to create the PR instead of the 404. Github API docs state that the token should have read/write permission by default for the permissive setting (which my repo is using). Additionally, in the "Set up job" section of the workflow job I see PullRequests: write.

What the problem might be

My suspicion is that this is a permission related problem, but as previously stated I'm using the GITHUB_TOKEN which as far as I understand should be able to create a PR. I'm probably missing something.

Thanks in advance!

[gr2m]

Does the problem persist? Looks like you changed your code since you filed the issue?

[flavianmissi]

Hi @gr2m, I didn't change my code - not sure what that notification was about.
So yeah the problem persists :/

[gr2m]

I don't know what the problem could be, but I think it's unlikely an Octokit problem

[flavianmissi]

yeah you're probably right @gr2m, if you can't see anything obviously wrong the code I'd be okay with closing this.