GitHub App access to Packages

[mat007]

Hi,

Authenticating to GitHub Packages says «GitHub Packages only supports authentication using a personal access token (classic).».
Does this mean a GitHub App token (ghs or ghu) can’t be used to read packages?

Here is what I did:

• changed the App permissions to add read-only to Packages
• accepted the change on the private repo the App is installed to
• retrieved both ghs and ghu tokens (I can detail a bit how I did that if needed)
• tested that the tokens could be used to access the private repo files and such
• used curl to list the packages:

curl -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" -H "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN" https://api.github.com/orgs/ORG/packages?package_type=npm

With a ghu token I’m getting

{                                                                                                                        
  "message": "Resource not accessible by integration",                                                                   
  "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/reference/packages#list-packages-for-an-organization"               
}                                                                                                                        

and with a ghs token, an empty array

[  
   
]  

The array is not empty when using one of my own PAT.

Any suggestion for how I could make my App access the npm packages?
Cheers!

[david-engelmann]

You can add in ssh files and an agent to automatically authenticate without any prompts

[mat007]

According to #34324 it seems not possible at the moment…