My create file doesn't work

[vydingding]

var GitHubApi = require("github");
var Assert = require("assert");

var github = new GitHubApi({
// required
version: "3.0.0",
// optional
debug: true,
protocol: "https",
host: "api.github.com",
pathPrefix: "",
timeout: 5000,
headers: {
"user-agent": "My-Cool-GitHub-App"
}
});
github.repos.createFile({

user: "vydingding",
repo: "166KATA",
path: "/master/",
message: "my commit message",
content: "hello.csv"

}, function(err, res) {

});

Error message is:
[error] { [Error: {"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://developer.
github.com/v3/repos/contents/"}]
[error] message: '{"message":"Not Found","documentation_url":"https://develope
r.github.com/v3/repos/contents/"}',
[error] code: 404 } null vydingding

[kaizensoze]

path should be the full relative path (including filename) and content should be the actual base 64 encoded contents of the file (https://www.base64encode.org/).

Here's a working example:

"use strict";

var Client = require("./../lib/index");
var testAuth = require("./../test_auth.json");

var github = new Client({
    debug: true
});

github.authenticate({
    type: "oauth",
    token: testAuth["token"]
});

github.repos.createFile({
    user: "kaizensoze",
    repo: "misc-scripts",
    path: "blah.txt",
    message: "blah blah",
    content: "YmxlZXAgYmxvb3A="
}, function(err, res) {
    console.log(err, res);
});

Is your intention to create a folder named master? If so, try

path: "master/hello.csv",
content: <base 64 encoded contents of hello.csv>

Otherwise, if you're referring to the branch, master is the default branch and doesn't need to be included.

Also keep in mind that even with those adjustments, it can still [misleadingly] return a 404 [instead of 403] if the repo is private and the auth method doesn't have access to private repos.

[vydingding]

Thanks. It's working now. However, should the content always be base 64 or can it be text (strings) directly?

[kaizensoze]

I think always base 64 but it'd be a quick test to try with a string.