Emacs forge Github store API token with Secret Service

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Here is one way to use Magit's Forge feature with GitHub, storing the API token in Access Service.

Create token

https://github.com/settings/tokens

Permissions suggested by the official documentation: read:org repo user.

Install forge with secrets

In .emacs:

(use-package secrets
  :config
  (setq auth-sources '("secrets:Login")))

(use-package forge
  :after magit secrets)

(Login can be replaced with the collection of your choice)

Create the password in Secret Service

Eval in scratch (replace UPPERCASED values accordingly):

(secrets-create-item "Login" "Emacs Forge Github" "YOUR API TOKEN" :host "api.github.com" :user "USERNAME^forge")

Add repository in Magit

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