Access Token for Private Composer Packages at Github

To generate a GitHub Personal Access Token we need to following steps to generate it.

1. Go to https://github.com/settings/tokens.
2. Click the Generate new token button.
3. Enter a Note to identify the usage for this token, normally you will enter here things like your computer name, or project.
4. Select scopes with the following options:

• repo - Full control of private repositories
• repo:status - Access commit status
• repo_deployment - Access deployment status
• public_repo - Access public repositories
• repo:invite - Access repository invitations
• security_events - Read and write security events

5. Click Generate token.

Make sure to copy your new personal access token now. You won’t be able to see it again!

6. Create a ~/.composer/auth.jsonfile if it doesn´t exists and add the following content.

{
    "github-oauth": {
        "github.com": "<your-key-goes-here>"
    }
}

That's it! You should be able to use composer require "nameofyour/package" without a prompt for your token.