Can’t generate Installation Access Token

[paul-carron]

I followed this documentation to generate an installation access token but I getht this response:

{
“message”: “Not Found”,
“documentation_url”: “https://developer.github.com/v3/apps/#create-a-new-installation-token”
}

I have a feeling the issue might be with my instalaltion_id. Can anybody confirm where I should get this?

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[paul-carron]

curl -i -X POST \
> -H “Authorization: Bearer token” \
> -H “Accept: application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview+json” \
> https://api.github.com/installations/13631156/access_tokens
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: GitHub.com
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:08:56 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 125
Status: 404 Not Found
X-GitHub-Media-Type: github.machine-man-preview; format=json
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Link, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Security-Policy: default-src ‘none’
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: deny
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Runtime-rack: 0.017574
X-GitHub-Request-Id: FCDF:33E6:845AB63:F3253A1:5AA67BE8

{
  “message”: “Not Found”,
  “documentation_url”: “https://developer.github.com/v3/apps/#create-a-new-installation-token”
}

There you go.

I suspect I may not have the correct installation_id in my URL. I used owner.id which I got from here:

curl -i -H “Authorization: Bearer token” -H “Accept: application/vnd.github.machine-man-preview+json” https://api.github.com/app
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: GitHub.com
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 12:47:44 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1389
Status: 200 OK
Cache-Control: public, max-age=60, s-maxage=60
Vary: Accept
ETag: “3e5af20afa747c7ee416bc063a413a04”
X-GitHub-Media-Type: github.machine-man-preview; format=json
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag, Link, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Security-Policy: default-src ‘none’
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: deny
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
X-Runtime-rack: 0.020248
X-GitHub-Request-Id: FA40:33E4:3F632C5:8358375:5AA676F0

{
  “id”: xxxx,
  “owner”: {
    “login”: “MyOrg”,
    “id”: xxxx,
    “avatar_url”: “https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/xxxx?v=4”,
    “gravatar_id”: “”,
    “url”: “https://api.github.com/users/PCTestOrg”,
    “html_url”: “https://github.com/PCTestOrg”,
    “followers_url”: “https://api.github.com/users/PCTestOrg/followers”,
    “following_url”: “https://api.github.com/users/PCTestOrg/following{/other_user}”,
    “gists_url”: “https://api.github.com/users/PCTestOrg/gists{/gist_id}”,
    “starred_url”: “https://api.github.com/users/PCTestOrg/starred{/owner}{/repo}”,
    “subscriptions_url”: “https://api.github.com/users/PCTestOrg/subscriptions”,
    “organizations_url”: “https://api.github.com/users/PCTestOrg/orgs”,
    “repos_url”: “https://api.github.com/users/PCTestOrg/repos”,
    “events_url”: “https://api.github.com/users/PCTestOrg/events{/privacy}”,
    “received_events_url”: “https://api.github.com/users/PCTestOrg/received_events”,
    “type”: “Organization”,
    “site_admin”: false
  },
  “name”: “IBM Stocator Test Runner - DEV”,
  “description”: “This is a DEV app for running multiple test types against the IBM Stocator connector.”,
  “external_url”: “https://github.com/PCTestOrg/stocator”,
  “html_url”: “https://github.com/apps/ibm-stocator-test-runner-dev”,
  “created_at”: “2018-02-22T12:47:16Z”,
  “updated_at”: “2018-03-12T12:05:17Z”
}

If this is incorrect, where should the installation_id come from?

[paul-carron]

In order to list your application installations, including the installation ID used for this endpoint, use the /app/installations endpoint documented here: https://developer.github.com/v3/apps/#find-installations