Simple CLI tool to quickly generate GitHub Apps authn/authz JWTs.
This is used to authenticate requests against the GitHub Apps endpoints: https://developer.github.com/v3/apps/
Learn about how to authenticate for these endpoints, and how to use the JWT generated by this tool, here: https://developer.github.com/apps/building-github-apps/authentication-options-for-github-apps/#authenticating-as-a-github-app
go get -u github.com/mtodd/ghjwtTo generate a valid JWT authentication token, given your GitHub Apps ID is 1234 and the private key PEM file generated from your GitHub Apps' settings can be found at path/to/private/key.pem:
ghjwt -iss 1234 -pem path/to/private/key.pemThis defaults to generating a valid token that expires 10 minutes from now. Use the -dur option to specify how long the JWT should be valid for, or set -exp with the specific unixtime expiration time for the key.
jwt=$(ghjwt -iss 1234 -pem path/to/private/key/pem)
curl -i -H "Authorization: Bearer $jwt" -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview+json" https://api.github.com/appCopyright 2018 Matt Todd
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