How do I generate the GitHub OAuth token for organization accounts?

Question

I have created an organization on GitHub. My organization has some repos. These repos have API documentation that I would like to re-build and publish to gh-pages branch via Travis-CI. In order to give Travis-CI access to my organization's repos I need to generate an OAuth token, encrypt it, and then add then include the encypted token in the .travis.yml file as follows...

env:
  global:
  - secure: "lots-of-seemingly-random-characters"

This SO post explains the process and provides the details on how to do this for user accounts. How do I generate the required OAuth token for organization accounts?

Seems like [on `gitlab.com` this isn't possible](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/37778) either. — IsaacS, Oct 31 '17 at 22:00

score 111 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '15 at 12:01

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That's not possible currently, you can only create tokens for user accounts since user accounts have permissions associated with them (organizations don't). So, you'd need to create a token with an account which has access to the repository in question and give that to Travis. You can also create a machine account for that purpose.

answered Jul 01 '15 at 12:01

Ivan Zuzak

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Do you have any plan to support this? – yanana Apr 07 '16 at 07:49
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So if the user associated with these accounts leaves the organization we would have to replace all of the tokens in our travis files? Is this intentionally not supported, or just not yet supported? – justin.m.chase Jun 13 '16 at 20:53
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What is a "machine account", I can't seem to find documentation on this. – justin.m.chase Jun 13 '16 at 20:54
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Nevermind, I see its just an account that is created specifically for use by the org for automation. Nothing fancy. – justin.m.chase Jun 13 '16 at 21:07
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About "machine account": https://developer.github.com/guides/managing-deploy-keys/#machine-users – Huang C. Mar 23 '17 at 03:49
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Problem is that machine account takes up a seat in the organization. – Alex Barker Feb 02 '20 at 21:49
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hi, is there any update on the org token? – Jirka Nov 30 '20 at 17:01
Is there any movement? I can't seem to find a good solution for this... – ielkhalloufi May 15 '22 at 10:01

How do I generate the GitHub OAuth token for organization accounts?

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