GitHub action with access to private repo - node.js

Question

I would like to run the CI part of my Node / Ionic project where I just yesterday added a custom capacitor plugin - repo A.
This plugin sits in repo B.
On my dev machine I added B as
npm install https://PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN#github.com/ME/B.git --save
to project A.
package.json now contains
"B": "git+https://PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN#github.com/ME/B.git",
and I pushed this to my current merge request.
However, the CI pipeline is telling me now:
npm install
shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}
npm ERR! Error while executing:
npm ERR! /usr/bin/git ls-remote -h -t https://***#github.com/ME/B.git
npm ERR!
npm ERR! remote: Repository not found.
npm ERR! fatal: repository 'https://github.com/ME/B.git/' not found
npm ERR!
Project B is a private repo. My account owns both repos and I am using my newly created Personal Access Token.
What should I check? I can pull the repo on my local, but there I am setup with my git+ssh env credentials too, so it might work just because of that...

Answer 1

Check first if you need your GitHub username:
https://myGitHubUsername:PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN#github.com/ME/B.git
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Then, if you need the token in the git+https URL:
"How to use private GitHub repo as npm dependency" mentions the use of npm-cli-login instead:
- name: Login to GitHub private NPM registry
env:
CI_ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NAME_OF_YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET }}
shell: bash
run: |
npm install -g npm-cli-login
npm-cli-login -u "USERNAME" -p "${CI_ACCESS_TOKEN}" -e "EMAIL" -r "https://npm.pkg.github.com" -s "#SCOPE"

Answer 2

Most answers that I have seen to install private GitHub repo
"package": "git+https://PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN:x-oauth-basic#github.com/username/packge.git"
or
"package": "https://PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN:x-oauth-basic#github.com/username/packge.git"
This works in local, however, if you are using actions/checkout#v2 in your github Action then you need to use persist-credentials:false like the following.
- uses: actions/checkout#v2
with:
persist-credentials: false
otherwise, you'll get an error message remote: Repository not found.
other ways to install private github repo
if you are using ssh like following
"package": "git+ssh://git#github.com/username/packge.git"
then you have to use the ssh-agent in your github action like this
- uses: webfactory/ssh-agent#v0.5.4
with:
ssh-private-key: ${{ secrets.SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
here SSH_PRIVATE_KEY is a private key from public-private key pair generated using ssh-keygen and the public key is added as a deploy key in the private repo that you are trying to install as an npm package. for more information about this, you can check the official doc