OAuth authorizations

The OAuth authorizations lets you manage the access OAuth applications have to your account.

About the OAuth authorizations API

You can use this API to manage the access OAuth applications have to your account. You can only access this API via Basic Authentication using your username and password, not tokens.

If you or your users have two-factor authentication enabled, make sure you understand how to work with two-factor authentication.

List your grants

Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

You can use this API to list the set of OAuth applications that have been granted access to your account. Unlike the list your authorizations API, this API does not manage individual tokens. This API will return one entry for each OAuth application that has been granted access to your account, regardless of the number of tokens an application has generated for your user. The list of OAuth applications returned matches what is shown on the application authorizations settings screen within GitHub. The scopes returned are the union of scopes authorized for the application. For example, if an application has one token with repo scope and another token with user scope, the grant will return ["repo", "user"].

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`per_page`integer The number of results per page (max 100). Default: `30`
`page`integer Page number of the results to fetch. Default: `1`
`client_id`string The client ID of your GitHub app.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`304`	Not modified
`401`	Requires authentication
`403`	Forbidden
`404`	Resource not found

Code samples

get/applications/grants

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/applications/grants

Response

Status: 200

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "url": "https://api.github.com/applications/grants/1",
    "app": {
      "url": "http://my-github-app.com",
      "name": "my github app",
      "client_id": "abcde12345fghij67890"
    },
    "created_at": "2011-09-06T17:26:27Z",
    "updated_at": "2011-09-06T20:39:23Z",
    "scopes": [
      "public_repo"
    ]
  }
]

Get a single grant

Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`grant_id`integerRequired The unique identifier of the grant.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`304`	Not modified
`401`	Requires authentication
`403`	Forbidden

Code samples

get/applications/grants/{grant_id}

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/applications/grants/GRANT_ID

Response

Status: 200

{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/applications/grants/1",
  "app": {
    "url": "http://my-github-app.com",
    "name": "my github app",
    "client_id": "abcde12345fghij67890"
  },
  "created_at": "2011-09-06T17:26:27Z",
  "updated_at": "2011-09-06T20:39:23Z",
  "scopes": [
    "public_repo"
  ]
}

Delete a grant

Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

Deleting an OAuth application's grant will also delete all OAuth tokens associated with the application for your user. Once deleted, the application has no access to your account and is no longer listed on the application authorizations settings screen within GitHub.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`grant_id`integerRequired The unique identifier of the grant.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`204`	No Content
`304`	Not modified
`401`	Requires authentication
`403`	Forbidden

Code samples

delete/applications/grants/{grant_id}

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/applications/grants/GRANT_ID

Response

Status: 204

List your authorizations

Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Query parameters
Name, Type, Description
`per_page`integer The number of results per page (max 100). Default: `30`
`page`integer Page number of the results to fetch. Default: `1`
`client_id`string The client ID of your GitHub app.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`304`	Not modified
`401`	Requires authentication
`403`	Forbidden
`404`	Resource not found

Code samples

get/authorizations

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/authorizations

Response

Status: 200

[
  {
    "id": 2,
    "url": "https://enterprise.octocat.com/api/v3/authorizations/2",
    "app": {
      "name": "My personal access token",
      "url": "https://docs.github.com/enterprise/rest/reference/enterprise-admin#list-personal-access-tokens",
      "client_id": "00000000000000000000"
    },
    "token": "ghp_16C7e42F292c6912E7710c838347Ae178B4a",
    "hashed_token": "23cffb2fab1b0a62747863eba88cb9327e561f2f7a0c8661c0d9b83146cb8d45",
    "token_last_eight": "Ae178B4a",
    "note": "My personal access token",
    "note_url": null,
    "created_at": "2019-04-24T21:49:02Z",
    "updated_at": "2019-04-24T21:49:02Z",
    "scopes": [
      "admin:business",
      "admin:gpg_key",
      "admin:org",
      "admin:org_hook",
      "admin:pre_receive_hook",
      "admin:public_key",
      "admin:repo_hook",
      "delete_repo",
      "gist",
      "notifications",
      "repo",
      "user",
      "write:discussion"
    ],
    "fingerprint": null
  }
]

Create a new authorization

Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

Warning: Apps must use the web application flow to obtain OAuth tokens that work with GitHub Enterprise Server SAML organizations. OAuth tokens created using the Authorizations API will be unable to access GitHub Enterprise Server SAML organizations. For more information, see the blog post.

Creates OAuth tokens using Basic Authentication. If you have two-factor authentication setup, Basic Authentication for this endpoint requires that you use a one-time password (OTP) and your username and password instead of tokens. For more information, see "Working with two-factor authentication."

To create tokens for a particular OAuth application using this endpoint, you must authenticate as the user you want to create an authorization for and provide the app's client ID and secret, found on your OAuth application's settings page. If your OAuth application intends to create multiple tokens for one user, use fingerprint to differentiate between them.

You can also create tokens on GitHub Enterprise Server from the personal access tokens settings page. Read more about these tokens in the GitHub Help documentation.

Organizations that enforce SAML SSO require personal access tokens to be allowed. Read more about allowing tokens in the GitHub Help documentation.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
`scopes`array of strings or null A list of scopes that this authorization is in.
`note`string A note to remind you what the OAuth token is for.
`note_url`string A URL to remind you what app the OAuth token is for.
`client_id`string The OAuth app client key for which to create the token.
`client_secret`string The OAuth app client secret for which to create the token.
`fingerprint`string A unique string to distinguish an authorization from others created for the same client ID and user.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`201`	Created
`304`	Not modified
`401`	Requires authentication
`403`	Forbidden
`410`	Gone
`422`	Validation failed

Code samples

post/authorizations

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/authorizations

Response

Status: 201

{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/1",
  "scopes": [
    "public_repo"
  ],
  "token": "ghu_16C7e42F292c6912E7710c838347Ae178B4a",
  "token_last_eight": "Ae178B4a",
  "hashed_token": "25f94a2a5c7fbaf499c665bc73d67c1c87e496da8985131633ee0a95819db2e8",
  "app": {
    "url": "http://my-github-app.com",
    "name": "my github app",
    "client_id": "abcde12345fghij67890"
  },
  "note": "optional note",
  "note_url": "http://optional/note/url",
  "updated_at": "2011-09-06T20:39:23Z",
  "created_at": "2011-09-06T17:26:27Z",
  "fingerprint": "jklmnop12345678"
}

Get-or-create an authorization for a specific app

Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

Warning: Apps must use the web application flow to obtain OAuth tokens that work with GitHub Enterprise Server SAML organizations. OAuth tokens created using the Authorizations API will be unable to access GitHub Enterprise Server SAML organizations. For more information, see the blog post.

Creates a new authorization for the specified OAuth application, only if an authorization for that application doesn't already exist for the user. The URL includes the 20 character client ID for the OAuth app that is requesting the token. It returns the user's existing authorization for the application if one is present. Otherwise, it creates and returns a new one.

If you have two-factor authentication setup, Basic Authentication for this endpoint requires that you use a one-time password (OTP) and your username and password instead of tokens. For more information, see "Working with two-factor authentication."

Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`client_id`stringRequired The client ID of the GitHub app.
Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
`client_secret`stringRequired The OAuth app client secret for which to create the token.
`scopes`array of strings or null A list of scopes that this authorization is in.
`note`string A note to remind you what the OAuth token is for.
`note_url`string A URL to remind you what app the OAuth token is for.
`fingerprint`string A unique string to distinguish an authorization from others created for the same client ID and user.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	if returning an existing token
`201`	Deprecation Notice: GitHub will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.
`304`	Not modified
`401`	Requires authentication
`403`	Forbidden
`422`	Validation failed

Code samples

put/authorizations/clients/{client_id}

curl \
  -X PUT \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/authorizations/clients/Iv1.8a61f9b3a7aba766

if returning an existing token

Status: 200

{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/1",
  "scopes": [
    "public_repo"
  ],
  "token": "ghu_16C7e42F292c6912E7710c838347Ae178B4a",
  "token_last_eight": "Ae178B4a",
  "hashed_token": "25f94a2a5c7fbaf499c665bc73d67c1c87e496da8985131633ee0a95819db2e8",
  "app": {
    "url": "http://my-github-app.com",
    "name": "my github app",
    "client_id": "abcde12345fghij67890"
  },
  "note": "optional note",
  "note_url": "http://optional/note/url",
  "updated_at": "2011-09-06T20:39:23Z",
  "created_at": "2011-09-06T17:26:27Z",
  "fingerprint": ""
}

Get-or-create an authorization for a specific app and fingerprint

Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

Warning: Apps must use the web application flow to obtain OAuth tokens that work with GitHub Enterprise Server SAML organizations. OAuth tokens created using the Authorizations API will be unable to access GitHub Enterprise Server SAML organizations. For more information, see the blog post.

This method will create a new authorization for the specified OAuth application, only if an authorization for that application and fingerprint do not already exist for the user. The URL includes the 20 character client ID for the OAuth app that is requesting the token. fingerprint is a unique string to distinguish an authorization from others created for the same client ID and user. It returns the user's existing authorization for the application if one is present. Otherwise, it creates and returns a new one.

If you have two-factor authentication setup, Basic Authentication for this endpoint requires that you use a one-time password (OTP) and your username and password instead of tokens. For more information, see "Working with two-factor authentication."

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`client_id`stringRequired The client ID of the GitHub app.
`fingerprint`stringRequired
Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
`client_secret`stringRequired The OAuth app client secret for which to create the token.
`scopes`array of strings or null A list of scopes that this authorization is in.
`note`string A note to remind you what the OAuth token is for.
`note_url`string A URL to remind you what app the OAuth token is for.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	if returning an existing token
`201`	Response if returning a new token
`422`	Validation failed

Code samples

put/authorizations/clients/{client_id}/{fingerprint}

curl \
  -X PUT \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/authorizations/clients/Iv1.8a61f9b3a7aba766/FINGERPRINT

if returning an existing token

Status: 200

{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/1",
  "scopes": [
    "public_repo"
  ],
  "token": "ghu_16C7e42F292c6912E7710c838347Ae178B4a",
  "token_last_eight": "Ae178B4a",
  "hashed_token": "25f94a2a5c7fbaf499c665bc73d67c1c87e496da8985131633ee0a95819db2e8",
  "app": {
    "url": "http://my-github-app.com",
    "name": "my github app",
    "client_id": "abcde12345fghij67890"
  },
  "note": "optional note",
  "note_url": "http://optional/note/url",
  "updated_at": "2011-09-06T20:39:23Z",
  "created_at": "2011-09-06T17:26:27Z",
  "fingerprint": "jklmnop12345678"
}

Get a single authorization

Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`authorization_id`integerRequired The unique identifier of the authorization.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`304`	Not modified
`401`	Requires authentication
`403`	Forbidden

Code samples

get/authorizations/{authorization_id}

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/authorizations/AUTHORIZATION_ID

Response

Status: 200

{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/1",
  "scopes": [
    "public_repo"
  ],
  "token": "ghu_16C7e42F292c6912E7710c838347Ae178B4a",
  "token_last_eight": "Ae178B4a",
  "hashed_token": "25f94a2a5c7fbaf499c665bc73d67c1c87e496da8985131633ee0a95819db2e8",
  "app": {
    "url": "http://my-github-app.com",
    "name": "my github app",
    "client_id": "abcde12345fghij67890"
  },
  "note": "optional note",
  "note_url": "http://optional/note/url",
  "updated_at": "2011-09-06T20:39:23Z",
  "created_at": "2011-09-06T17:26:27Z",
  "fingerprint": "jklmnop12345678"
}

Update an existing authorization

Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

If you have two-factor authentication setup, Basic Authentication for this endpoint requires that you use a one-time password (OTP) and your username and password instead of tokens. For more information, see "Working with two-factor authentication."

You can only send one of these scope keys at a time.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`authorization_id`integerRequired The unique identifier of the authorization.
Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
`scopes`array of strings or null A list of scopes that this authorization is in.
`add_scopes`array of strings A list of scopes to add to this authorization.
`remove_scopes`array of strings A list of scopes to remove from this authorization.
`note`string A note to remind you what the OAuth token is for.
`note_url`string A URL to remind you what app the OAuth token is for.
`fingerprint`string A unique string to distinguish an authorization from others created for the same client ID and user.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`422`	Validation failed

Code samples

patch/authorizations/{authorization_id}

curl \
  -X PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/authorizations/AUTHORIZATION_ID

Response

Status: 200

{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/1",
  "scopes": [
    "public_repo"
  ],
  "token": "ghu_16C7e42F292c6912E7710c838347Ae178B4a",
  "token_last_eight": "Ae178B4a",
  "hashed_token": "25f94a2a5c7fbaf499c665bc73d67c1c87e496da8985131633ee0a95819db2e8",
  "app": {
    "url": "http://my-github-app.com",
    "name": "my github app",
    "client_id": "abcde12345fghij67890"
  },
  "note": "optional note",
  "note_url": "http://optional/note/url",
  "updated_at": "2011-09-06T20:39:23Z",
  "created_at": "2011-09-06T17:26:27Z",
  "fingerprint": "jklmnop12345678"
}

Delete an authorization

Deprecation Notice: GitHub Enterprise Server will discontinue the OAuth Authorizations API, which is used by integrations to create personal access tokens and OAuth tokens, and you must now create these tokens using our web application flow. The OAuth Authorizations API will be removed on November, 13, 2020. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github.v3+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`authorization_id`integerRequired The unique identifier of the authorization.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`204`	No Content
`304`	Not modified
`401`	Requires authentication
`403`	Forbidden

Code samples

delete/authorizations/{authorization_id}

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \ 
  -H "Authorization: token <TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/authorizations/AUTHORIZATION_ID

Response

Status: 204