C#•16mo ago

✅ Can't use `gh webhooks forward`: "Error: you must be authenticated to run this command"

I'm trying to forward github webhooks to a local server for testing purposes, following https://docs.github.com/en/webhooks-and-events/webhooks/receiving-webhooks-with-the-github-cli. I've logged in via gh auth login, and requested proper scopes:

> gh auth status
+github.com
+  ✓ Logged in to github.com as XXXXXXXXXXXX (keyring)
+  ✓ Git operations for github.com configured to use https protocol.
+  ✓ Token: gho_************************************
+  ✓ Token scopes: admin:org_hook, gist, read:org, repo, workflow

> gh auth status
+github.com
+  ✓ Logged in to github.com as XXXXXXXXXXXX (keyring)
+  ✓ Git operations for github.com configured to use https protocol.
+  ✓ Token: gho_************************************
+  ✓ Token scopes: admin:org_hook, gist, read:org, repo, workflow

but when I try to run the command to forward webhooks:

> gh webhook forward --org=FooOrg --events=issues --url="https://localhost:44322/api/github/webhooks"
-Error: you must be authenticated to run this command

> gh webhook forward --org=FooOrg --events=issues --url="https://localhost:44322/api/github/webhooks"
-Error: you must be authenticated to run this command

What gives? Wasn't sure where I could possibly ask since there isn't exactly a github CLI discord server I'm aware of, and this place is full of developers... (And yes, I've verified the account I logged in as has proper permissions for the organization. I created the org with that account)

11 Replies

Kiel•16mo ago

oh, I think it's because I'm trying to use a GH App's webhook. clueless

Kiel•16mo ago

Actually, scratch that, that's not the issue - it would simply not push to the webhook at all in this case, not fail to authenticate.

Nergy101•16mo ago

is there a verbose version so you can see where it's trying to Reach?

Kiel•16mo ago

closest I could find is a mention that one can set GH_DEBUG=1. Didn't change anything.

Kiel•16mo ago

Through the glory of open source, I found https://github.com/cli/gh-webhook/blob/main/webhook/forward.go#L74

GitHub

gh-webhook/forward.go at main · cli/gh-webhook

Contribute to cli/gh-webhook development by creating an account on GitHub.

Kiel•16mo ago

But it's not really making sense or helpful to me, but I'll dig some more to see what it's looking for and why this "token" is empty despite being authenticated

Nergy101•16mo ago

Tried to logout and back in? 😂

Kiel•16mo ago

yep. I followed the rabbit hole to see where it's trying to get the token from and ended up here: https://github.com/cli/go-gh/blob/trunk/pkg/auth/auth.go#L35

GitHub

go-gh/auth.go at trunk · cli/go-gh

A Go module for interacting with gh and the GitHub API from the command line. - go-gh/auth.go at trunk · cli/go-gh

Kiel•16mo ago

It tries to get a token from $GITHUB_TOKEN, then tries to get a token from the gh auth token command by looking up where gh.exe is via $GH_PATH set both of those envvars, even restarted the terminal since I know that's required after mucking around with envvars still fookin' nothing. oh well, I filed an issue. I'm not sure if it's a bug with gh-webhooks or gh-cli itself

Nergy101•16mo ago

Gj on finding all that out tho.

Kiel•16mo ago

update: I was able to actually make it work by setting $GITHUB_TOKEN in my environment variables page. A temporary set GITHUB_TOKEN=xxx didn't work for some reason, I'm guessing that's invalid syntax for powershell, though I didn't get any errors

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✅ Can't use `gh webhooks forward`: "Error: you must be authenticated to run this command"