It’s been a month or so since we lasted published our orb, seems GitHub personal tokens have changed and are now scoped. I have generated a token with all scopes but still getting Error: AUTHORIZATION_FAILURE when performing circleci orb publish [...] --token $GITHUB_TOKEN

It looks like the “Failed to query the GitHub API for updates” error is due to the CLI trying to auto-update. You should be able to use the --skip-update-check to skip this, which should resolve your issue (along with ensuring CIRCLE_TOKEN is currently set). With the change implemented, it’s attempt…

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gmemstr March 26, 2020, 9:18am 3

Hi @zygopleural - can you confirm whether you’re using a GitHub token, or a CircleCI token for authentication?

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