Can you update the name of the bot in probot?

[blackgirlbytes]

When a GitHub bot responds (opens a PR or issue), it uses my name and profile picture. I'm assuming because I created it under my account. Is there any way to change the name of the bot?

[gr2m]

That sounds like the app is using your personal access token? It shouldn't look as if you created the PR or issue. Can you share a link to an example?

[blackgirlbytes]

oh okay. I feel like every time I have a probot question, it's always that I'm not handling the authentication properly 😅 Sorry about that.

Here's my code (I haven't added it to a branch yet or anything because I need to do a lot of clean up):

const { Octokit } = require("@octokit/core");
const { createPullRequest } = require("octokit-plugin-create-pull-request");
/**
 * This is the main entrypoint to your Probot app
 * @param {import('probot').Probot} app
 */
module.exports = (app) => {
  const MyOctokit = Octokit.plugin(createPullRequest);
  const TOKEN = "add token";
  const octokit = new MyOctokit({
    auth: TOKEN,
  });
  // Your code here
  app.log.info("Yay, the app was loaded!");

  app.on("issues.opened", async (context) => {

    octokit
      .createPullRequest({
        owner: "gcodehouse",
        repo: "open-new-pr",
        title: "Yearbook Quote Submission",
        number: 200,
        body: "adding a new quote",
        base: "main" /* optional: defaults to default branch */,
        // need to create a way to make each branch unique
        head: "yearbook-quote-submission1",
        forceFork: false,
        changes: [
          {
            files: {
              "yearbook-quote.md": ({ exists, encoding, content }) => {
                // do not create the file if it does not exist
                if (!exists) return null;
                const prContents = context.payload.issue.body
                let prContentsString = Buffer.from(prContents, "utf8").toString('base64');
                return Buffer.from(prContentsString, encoding)
                  .toString("utf-8")
              },
            },
            commit:
              `adding to year book`,
          },
        ],
      }
      ).catch(async (err) => {
        if (err) {
          console.log(err.status, err);
        }
      })
  })
};

[blackgirlbytes]

so basically i'm trying to open up a PR every time one of the students from All In opens an issue submitting their yearbook quote in this repo : https://github.com/AllInOpenSource/All-In-for-Students-Graduation-2022

Is it possible to show that student as the author of the PR if I don't use a personal access token and I use a different method of authentication?

[gr2m]

you shouldn't need this code

  const octokit = new MyOctokit({
    auth: TOKEN,
  });

use context.octokit instead. Then use the composeCreatePullRequest method and pass context.octokit as the first argument

import { composeCreatePullRequest } from "octokit-plugin-create-pull-request";

// ...

  app.on("issues.opened", async (context) => {

    composeCreatePullRequest(context.octokit, {

Does that work?

[blackgirlbytes]

This worked. Thank you so much.