The documentation is very lacking (probably because this is new?) and it took me some extra time to figure out where to get the tokens and how to configure the importer.
When you run this step gh actions-importer configure you need to provide personal access tokens for both github and the platform you're trying to migrate from.
In my case it's Travis CI and that's what I will cover here, however the steps to acquire the personal access token for github are the same.
Tl;dr go here: https://github.com/settings/tokens
Basically
- open your settings (from the top right)
- On the left side at the very bottom select
Developer settings - Personal Access Tokens -> Tokens (classic)
- Generate new token (classic)
- Give it the Repo scopes
- Generate the token
Save the token for later
Follow this procedure to install travis CLI: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis.rb#installation
Follow this procedure to get the token: https://developer.travis-ci.com/authentication
Note: I couldn't find the travis binary because my paths were not set correctly (probably everyone is like this out of the box?). You'll likely find the travis bin here: ~/.gem/bin/travis
if you get
Try running with --github-token or --auto-token .
all GitHub tokens given were invalid
Then run ./travis login --pro --github-token TOKEN_FROM_STEPS_ABOVE_HERE
gh actions-importer configure
✔ Which CI providers are you configuring?: Travis CI
Enter the following values (leave empty to omit):
✔ Personal access token for GitHub: ****************************************
✔ Base url of the GitHub instance: https://github.com
✔ Personal access token for Travis CI: **********************
✔ Base url of the Travis CI instance: https://travis-ci.com
✔ Travis CI organization name: YourOrgNameOnTravis
Environment variables successfully updated.