Retrieving the app's bot user no longer works

[gastaldi]

The following instructions do not work anymore:

• Create a git committer string for an app installation
• Configure git CLI for an app's bot user

The following step fails:

      - name: Get GitHub App User ID
        id: get-user-id
        run: echo "user-id=$(gh api "/users/${{ steps.app-token.outputs.app-slug }}[bot]" --jq .id)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ steps.app-token.outputs.token }}

Even https://api.github.com/users/dependabot[bot] returns 404, I wonder if something changed in GitHub that broke this behavior

[hypery2k]

did you installed your app in the org? There should be an install button in the middle of the screen.

Had the same error and installing resolved it for me

[infinisil]

I'm having the same problem and can confirm that the App is installed on the org.

Note that it doesn't actually fail the workflow, but rather just messes up the commits: https://github.com/NixOS/SC-election-2024/commit/f0ef6dfead7172602ff814e979f09574f4096ab1

In the patch it shows as:

From: "nix-elections[bot]"
 <{
  "message":"Resource not accessible by integration",
  "documentation_url":"https://docs.github.com/rest",
  "status":"403"
 }+nix-elections[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Notably with the status code 403, rather than the 404 reported when running the corresponding command locally.

[gastaldi]

@hypery2k yes, it is installed in my org. I am seeing the same behavior as @infinisil described above

[StepanKuksenko]

I experience the same issue:

      - name: Get token
        id: generate-token
        uses: actions/create-github-app-token@v1
        with:
          app-id: ${{ vars.APP_ID }}
          private-key: ${{ secrets.PRIVATE_KEY }}
          owner: "org-name"
          repositories: "repo-name"

      - name: Get user id
        id: get-user-id
        run: echo "user-id=$(gh api "/users/${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.app-slug }}[bot]" --jq .id)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}

error:

gh: Resource not accessible by integration (HTTP 403)

The latest successful run was yesterday (Sep 16)

[gastaldi]

Looks like it's working again now, can you confirm? I am not sure what changed

[StepanKuksenko]

Now it works for me as well 🤷‍♂️

[gastaldi]

Ok, I'll close this issue since it seems to work now, but seems to be a GitHub glitch, which should probably be reported somewhere else