How do I generate the GitHub OAuth token for organization accounts?

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That's not possible currently, you can only create tokens for user accounts since user accounts have permissions associated with them (organizations don't). So, you'd need to create a token with an account which has access to the repository in question and give that to Travis. You can also create a machine account for that purpose.

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Updated on July 05, 2022

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davidrpugh almost 2 years
I have created an organization on GitHub. My organization has some repos. These repos have API documentation that I would like to re-build and publish to gh-pages branch via Travis-CI. In order to give Travis-CI access to my organization's repos I need to generate an OAuth token, encrypt it, and then add then include the encypted token in the .travis.yml file as follows...
```
env:
  global:
  - secure: "lots-of-seemingly-random-characters"
```
This SO post explains the process and provides the details on how to do this for user accounts. How do I generate the required OAuth token for organization accounts?
yanana about 8 years

Do you have any plan to support this?
justin.m.chase almost 8 years

So if the user associated with these accounts leaves the organization we would have to replace all of the tokens in our travis files? Is this intentionally not supported, or just not yet supported?
justin.m.chase almost 8 years

What is a "machine account", I can't seem to find documentation on this.
justin.m.chase almost 8 years

Nevermind, I see its just an account that is created specifically for use by the org for automation. Nothing fancy.
Huang C. about 7 years

About "machine account": developer.github.com/guides/managing-deploy-keys/#machine-us‌ers
Alex Barker about 4 years

Problem is that machine account takes up a seat in the organization.
Jirka over 3 years

hi, is there any update on the org token?
ielkhalloufi almost 2 years

Is there any movement? I can't seem to find a good solution for this...