[BUG]: Octokit.NotFoundException

[ghost]

What happened?

I try octokit for the first time using nuget package 13.0.1

This is my code

async public Task UpdateGithub()
{
var ghClient = new GitHubClient(new ProductHeaderValue("Octokit"));
ghClient.Credentials = new Credentials("login", "password");

// github variables
var owner = "owner";
var repo = "repo.github.io";
var branch = "main";

var targetFile = "test.txt";

try
{
    // try to get the file (and with the file the last commit sha)
    var existingFile = await ghClient.Repository.Content.GetAllContentsByRef(owner, repo, targetFile, branch);

    // update the file
    var updateChangeSet = await ghClient.Repository.Content.UpdateFile(owner, repo, targetFile, new UpdateFileRequest("API File update", "Hello Universe! " + DateTime.UtcNow, existingFile.First().Sha, branch));
}
catch (Octokit.NotFoundException)
{
    // if file is not found, create it
    var createChangeSet = await ghClient.Repository.Content.CreateFile(owner, repo, targetFile, new CreateFileRequest("API File creation", "Hello Universe! " + DateTime.UtcNow, branch));
}

}

I get 2 times a Octokit.NotFoundException.
Can somebody tell me what's wrong and why?

I replaced "login", "password", "owner", "repo.github.io" and "main" by the correct value for my github repo.

Jessica

Versions

Octokit nuget 13.0.1

Relevant log output

No response

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[kfcampbell]

Are you actually using your GitHub password to authenticate? We removed support for that as of August 2021 IIRC. If so, you'll need to generate a Personal Access Token and use that to authenticate instead.

[ghost]

Are you actually using your GitHub password to authenticate? We removed support for that as of August 2021 IIRC. If so, you'll need to generate a Personal Access Token and use that to authenticate instead.

Yes

Can you tell me how to generate that token and what code I need.
Is it possible to give me the code lines I need to replace the ones below?

var ghClient = new GitHubClient(new ProductHeaderValue("Octokit")); ghClient.Credentials = new Credentials("login", "password");

[ghost]

Are you actually using your GitHub password to authenticate? We removed support for that as of August 2021 IIRC. If so, you'll need to generate a Personal Access Token and use that to authenticate instead.

can you please answer how to do this?

[kfcampbell]

The account that asked has been deleted, but for future reference, the docs they were looking for are here.