How to add ssh-keys via GitHub's v3 API? -

i'm trying add ssh key via github's v3 api, doesn't seem working.

what i'm doing based on instructions given here.

more specifically, i'm using following:

key=$( cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ) title=${key/* } # '/* ' above deletes every character in $key , including last # space.  json=$( printf '{"title": "%s", "key": "%s"}' "$title" "$key" )  token=$( cat /path/to/tokenfile )  curl -s -d "$json" "https://api.github.com/user/keys?access_token=$token" 

when run above, response is:

{   "message": "not found" } 

...and, sure enough, when check in github account, $key not among ssh-keys listed¹.

 

 

what doing wrong?

 

 

additional details

i same "message": "not found" response if run

curl -s "https://api.github.com/user/keys?access_token=$token" 

if replace -s above -i see that, indeed, returned status 404 not found. , yet, returned status for

curl -i "https://api.github.com/user/keys" 

is 401 unauthorized.

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¹ know access token in $token fine, , therefore not reason "message": "not found" response, because

curl -s "https://api.github.com/user/repos?access_token=$token" 

returns correct information, and

curl -s "https://api.github.com/user/repos" 

returns

{   "message": "requires authentication" } 

does access token have "user" scope? relevant excerpt docs:

management of public keys via api requires authenticated through basic auth, or oauth ‘user’ scope.

if token not have "user" scope, 404 response message of "not found".

to see scopes associated tokens, use "authorizations" api:

curl -u <username> https://api.github.com/authorizations 

in example response below, first authorization has "user" scope, second 1 not.

enter code here [   {     "id": 123,     "url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/123",     "app": {       "name": "foo",       "url": "https://foo.example.com/",       "client_id": "redacted-id-1"     },     "token": "redacted-token-1",     "note": null,     "note_url": null,     "created_at": "2013-02-18t18:24:00z",     "updated_at": "2013-05-06t14:17:00z",     "scopes": [       "repo",       "user"     ]   },   {     "id": 456,     "url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/456",     "app": {       "name": "bar",       "url": "https://bar.example.com/",       "client_id": "redacted-id-2"     },     "token": "redacted-token-2",     "note": "for stuff",     "note_url": null,     "created_at": "2013-04-16t12:20:00z",     "updated_at": "2013-05-13t21:28:00z",     "scopes": [       "public_repo"     ]   } ] 

if determine source of problem, can resolve in 1 of 2 ways:

• create new token has "user" scope, or
• update existing token add "user" scope it: "add_scopes": [ "user" ]