Trying to create sites via the API using the npm package in nodejs but deploys keep failing?

[hillary]

Hey there, @Stinny

Apologies for the delay here! We took a look at your situation, and everything appears to be working now. Can you confirm if you are still encountering obstacles?

For folks who may be following along, this error (“Failed during stage ‘preparing repo’: error checking for ref: fatal: could not read Username for ‘https://github.com’: No such device or address”) usually means that someone has mis-linked the repo with an https://github.com/login/repo URI rather than what we need, which is a git@github.com/login/repo type URI.

This support guide has more details:

[Support Guide] Linking a repository via API

Last reviewed by Netlify Support Staff: August 2023 It is easiest to link a repository in Netlify’s UI; doing it via API is challenging and should be a rare use case. Nonetheless, it is possible to create a Netlify site linked to a repository at any of our supported git providers programatically. Specifically, it is possible to use Netlify’s REST API for these situations. You’ll probably be interested in the general topics around “how do I use Netlify’s REST API?” (see this support guide, as w…