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user1643892
user1643892

Reputation: 31

curl response / github oauth

I'm trying to use OAUTH authentication for github in a bash script.

this:

curl -u $USER_NAME --silent -d '{"scopes":["repo"]}' \
    https://api.github.com/authorizations

works and as a result I get a response like this:

"created_at": "2012-09-03T13:02:30Z",
"token": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
"updated_at": "2012-09-03T13:02:30Z",
"note_url": null,
"note": null,
"url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/620793",
"app": {
    "url": "http://developer.github.com/v3/oauth/#oauth-authorizations-api",
    "name": "GitHub API"
},
"id": 620793,
"scopes": [
    "repo"
]

But I need to keep the "token":'s value in a variable for future use. How could I do that?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 541

Answers (2)

tonybaldwin
tonybaldwin

Reputation: 171

I did it like this, to get certain data from a different json response:

yourcodehere | grep token | awk '{ print $2 }' | sed s/\"//g | sed s/,//g)

Similar to what Onilton did, but just used awk to get the second item from that line, sed to strip the quotes and comma out. There is at least one json library or something for bash, too, I believe (probably more than one), to parse it for the variable you want, but I haven't even looked at it. I'm not saying this is any better than Onilton's method, but just another option. It works. If I had better awk fu, I could probably do this all with awk, and not need sed, but I don't.

Upvotes: 0

Onilton Maciel
Onilton Maciel

Reputation: 3699

You could use sed and grep to get what you want:

curl -u $USER_NAME --silent -d '{"scopes":["repo"]}' "https://api.github.com/authorizations" | grep '"token":' | sed 's/.*:\s\+"\([^"]\+\).*/\1/g'

I tried to setup the suggest tool, jsawk, to post another alternative here, but jsawk needs spidermonkey-bin, and now you can't get spidermonkey-bin in ubuntu and the PPA that had this packaged don't have it anymore. Now you need to compile from source. Too much trouble, to get a slightly cleaner solution.

Upvotes: 1

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