Composer: Generate a Github Oauth token for privately hosted packages and repositories

composer-generate-a-github-oauth-token.md

Composer: Generate a Github Oauth token for privately hosted packages and repositories

Generate your personal access token

. Generate a new personal access token https://github.com/settings/tokens/new . Copy your token ghp_mytoken

Generate your auth.json

$ cd ~/.config/composer/auth.json`
$ composer config github-oauth.github.com ghp_mytoken

Verify your auth.json

$ cat ~/.config/composer/auth.json
{
    "github-oauth": {
        "github.com": "ghp_mytoken"
    }
}

Resources

. https://github.com/settings/tokens/new . https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/authentication-for-private-packages.md#github-oauth