Access Private Pages using API Token

[hfhbd]

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Is it possible to fetch a private GitHub Page with curl using an API token (header: Authorization Bearer GitHub token) ? If so, which scope is needed?

[yoannchaudet]

Hello,

This is not possible today.

[hfhbd]

Thank you for the feedback. Are there any plans to implement it or do you know some workarounds?
Our use-case: We use GitHub pages for internal api docs for an internal library. Another project uses this library. We want to create the api docs of the consuming library. During api generating, we link the docs with the internal library and our doc tool needs to fetch the package file.

[yoannchaudet]

How is your Pages site built now? We support custom workflows nowadays, so I would use that. If you need any part of the generated doc somewhere else, you could publish it as a release assets for instance.

[hfhbd]

We use GitHub Actions and the docs are generated by Gradle based build. While we could store the docs as release assets, we update and publish the docs independently from our releases, eg to fix grammar, add more chapters etc.

[yoannchaudet]

Got it. I just suggest using another medium to keep an archive of your published site that you can consume from somewhere else (instead of having to try and make authenticated calls to the Pages site directly since we don't support that today).

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[zbigniew-malcherczyk-tg]

Hey! It's neem two years since that issue. Did anything changed? Can Private Pages be accessed with API Token or maybe OAUTH token?

[MatteoCalabro-TomTom]

It looks like it's still not possible.