I was trying to create a website where I could put in some data, and it would send GitHub API a POST request to create a file with the specified data. I am using GitHub Pages to host.
I created a test script that should create a file once the page loads, and it worked originally, but as I came back to test it again 2 hours later, it didn't create a file. What am I doing wrong? Note: I'm using personal tokens for this, is that an issue?
Here's my code:
index.html:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<title>Dev portal</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
Hello world
<script type="module" src="script.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
script.js:
import { Octokit } from "https://cdn.skypack.dev/@octokit/rest";
const octokit = new Octokit({
auth: 'iputmytokenhere'
})
await octokit.request('PUT /repos/{owner}/{repo}/contents/{path}', {
owner: 'Skoolgq',
repo: 'skoolgq.github.io',
path: 'test2.txt',
message: 'Test commits for JSON API',
committer: {
name: 'Skool Developers',
email: '[email protected]'
},
content: 'bXkgbmV3IGZpbGUgY29udGVudHM='
})
Turns out I was using an existing filename. Silly me!