Create a GitHub repo from Terminal. Paste this in ~/.bash_profile or if like me you use zsh, paste it in ~/.zshrc

github-create

github-create() {
  repo_name=$1
 
  dir_name=`basename $(pwd)`
 
  if [ "$repo_name" = "" ]; then
    echo "Repo name (hit enter to use '$dir_name')?"
    read repo_name
  fi
 
  if [ "$repo_name" = "" ]; then
    repo_name=$dir_name
  fi
 
  username=`git config github.user`
  if [ "$username" = "" ]; then
    echo "Could not find username, run 'git config --global github.user <username>'"
    invalid_credentials=1
  fi
 
  token=`git config github.token`
  if [ "$token" = "" ]; then
    echo "Could not find token, run 'git config --global github.token <token>'"
    invalid_credentials=1
  fi
 
  if [ "$invalid_credentials" == "1" ]; then
    return 1
  fi
 
  echo -n "Creating Github repository '$repo_name' ..."
  curl -u "$username:$token" https://api.github.com/user/repos -d '{"name":"'$repo_name'"}' > /dev/null 2>&1
  echo " done."
 
  echo -n "Pushing local code to remote ..."
  git remote add origin [email protected]:$username/$repo_name.git > /dev/null 2>&1
  git push -u origin master > /dev/null 2>&1
  echo " done."
}

For some reason, this kept throwing a "Not Found" error. I eventually just went with dumping the code into a text-file named github-create under ~/bin/ and running chmod a+x on it.

If you're going to do this, remember to remove the "github-create() {" at the top and the final curly brace.