Problem:
Users may get an Unauthorized 401 error (Invalid credentials) when importing a project into Github using the API with a service account token.
Discussion:
When using your *user* API token, there is a workflow that gets used by Github and oAuth. The problem lies that some actions (like import project) do not have a workflow for service accounts.
Unfortunately, using a Service Account token is not supported at this time.
Resolution:
Currently, the workaround is to use a user token or create a fully signed-in user account as the service account for Github.