Deploy Hexo to Github With Token

Hexo provides a fast and easy deployment strategy. You only need one single command to deploy your site to your server.

hexo deploy

To deploy Hexo to Github, you need to install the necessary plugin(s), hexo-deployer-git that is compatible with the deployment method provided by your server/repository. Deployment is usually configured through _config.yml. A valid configuration must have the type field. For example:

deploy:
  type: git

At the beginning, you need to go to this website to see how to create a GitHub Personal Access Token. Once the token is generated, keep it somewhere for later use.

Go to Hexo file _config.yml, and include below code block in it. Set the token parameter to be the Github token name which was just generated.

deploy:
  type: git
  repo:
    github:
      url: https://github.com/<myusername>/<myrepo>.git
      branch: <branch_name>
      token: $<token_name>
  name: <my_visible_name>
  email: <my_email>

After this, you could deploy Hexo to your Github repository. The command should be like this:

<token_name>=<token_value> hexo deploy;