How to create a repository on Gitea via CLI

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Hello, I'm incompetent.
I want to push to Gitea while pushing to Github, but it's troublesome, so I want to be able to operate it from the CLI.
The reason is that I'm not mirroring everything as a Github mirror; I just want to be able to push somewhat easily.

Issuing an API Key

Issue an API key in Gitea.
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API Request with curl

Pasting the curl URL every time is too much of a hassle, so I'll make it a function.
Add the following to .bashrc

ga() {
  curl -X POST "https://git.domain.tld/api/v1/user/repos" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: token GITEA_API_TOKEN" \
  -d "{
    \"name\": \"$1\",
    \"private\": $2
  }"
}

Source it

source ~/.bashrc

And when I executed it, I got an error.

$ ga test false
{"message":"token does not have at least one of required scope(s), required=[write:user], token scope=write:repository","url":"https://git.domain.tld/api/swagger"}

I granted read and write permissions for the repository, but it seems user write permission is also required.

It worked

So, I need to pass a boolean value for whether it's a private repository as the second argument, and I'll create the repository like this.

ga testrepo false

However, the value returned in JSON is too long.
I only need the remote URL value, so I'll extract it with jq

ga() {
  curl -X POST "https://git.domain.tld/api/v1/user/repos" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: token GITEA_API_TOKEN" \
  -d "{
    \"name\": \"$1\",
    \"private\": $2
  }" |\
  jq .ssh_url
}

Finally

$ ga testa false
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  2227    0  2180  100    47   2471     53 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  2524
"ssh://git@git.domain.tld:port/haturatu/testa.git"

You can turn off the progress display for things like wget with an option, but how do you turn off this progress display when piping?

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