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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
github-personal-access-token-generator-cli
Advanced tools
Generate GitHub personal access tokens from the command line

A GitHub personal access token is pretty seamless to do from the web UI.
However, if you're a command line freak like me and want to create a personal access token quickly without having to leave the Terminal...
npm install github-personal-access-token-generator-cli -g
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You will be asked for
If successful your personal access token will be copied to your clipboard.
Yeah, they're not.
This utility is mostly to create personal access tokens quickly - most of the time (I would argue), you need to set one of the "overriding" scopes rather than any of the "sub-scopes".
If this is something that's not the case for end-users, this can be added.
FAQs
Generate GitHub personal access tokens from the command line
The npm package github-personal-access-token-generator-cli receives a total of 5 weekly downloads. As such, github-personal-access-token-generator-cli popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that github-personal-access-token-generator-cli demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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