Hi there. I recently switched jobs, so I was busy making a transition, and also got myself a new gear (MB Pro yummy). I was Windows user for about 15 years, and actually, remember running Aladin game from MS-DOS prompt window. Now, the time has come to step on the dark side and explore possibilities of a new environment for work and personal projects.

I started setting up Jekyll again (which is really easy when you are on Mac, so one point there). However, when I ran my local server I got an error in my terminal:

GitHub Metadata: No GitHub API authentication could be found. 
Some fields may be missing or have incorrect data.

So, as I was googling the solution, I came to realize that this was more of a warning than an error. However, it bothered my OCD, and I started jumping back and forth to find a solution. I am actually writing this instruction for personal reference as well if I switch to another environment in the future or something like that.

Step 1:

Create a personal access token for the command line. You can find instructions on GitHub help page.

Step 2:

Open the bash_profile file. If you are on Mac OS, run the terminal and enter:

touch ~/.bash_profile; open ~/.bash_profile

It will open up the file with TextEdit. You can also use other editors:

nano ~/.bash_profile
mate ~/.bash_profile
vim ~/.bash_profile

Step 3:

Now, inside the bash_profile define new environment variable with variable name JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN and GitHub access token as variable value (you generated it in Step 1). You can do this by addiing the following line :

export JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN ='your_token_here'

Step 4:

Reload the terminal, and to make sure you did everything right, enter this into your command line:

echo $JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN

You should be getting back token you generated in Step 1.

Now, when you run:

bundle exec jekyll serve

you shouldn’t be getting any errors.