Authenticating to the REST API

You can authenticate to the REST API to access more endpoints and have a higher rate limit.

Follow these best practices to keep your API credentials and tokens secure.

Your GitHub App can make requests to the following REST endpoints with an installation access token.

Your GitHub App can make requests to the following REST endpoints with a user access token.

Your fine-grained personal access token can make requests to the following REST endpoints.

For each permission granted to a GitHub App, these are the REST API endpoints that the app can use.

For each permission granted to a fine-grained personal access token, these are the REST API endpoints that the app can use.