OAuth Apps

Use the REST API to interact with OAuth Apps

About OAuth Apps

You can use these endpoints to manage the OAuth tokens that OAuth App uses to access people's accounts on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

Delete an app authorization

OAuth application owners can revoke a grant for their OAuth application and a specific user. You must use Basic Authentication when accessing this endpoint, using the OAuth application's client_id and client_secret as the username and password. You must also provide a valid OAuth access_token as an input parameter and the grant for the token's owner will be deleted. Deleting an OAuth application's grant will also delete all OAuth tokens associated with the application for the user. Once deleted, the application will have no access to the user's account and will no longer be listed on the application authorizations settings screen within GitHub.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`client_id`stringRequired The client ID of the GitHub app.
Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
`access_token`stringRequired The OAuth access token used to authenticate to the GitHub API.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`204`	No Content
`422`	Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

Code samples

delete/applications/{client_id}/grant

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/applications/Iv1.8a61f9b3a7aba766/grant \
  -d '{"access_token":"e72e16c7e42f292c6912e7710c838347ae178b4a"}'

Response

Status: 204

Check a token

OAuth applications can use a special API method for checking OAuth token validity without exceeding the normal rate limits for failed login attempts. Authentication works differently with this particular endpoint. You must use Basic Authentication to use this endpoint, where the username is the OAuth application client_id and the password is its client_secret. Invalid tokens will return 404 NOT FOUND.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`client_id`stringRequired The client ID of the GitHub app.
Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
`access_token`stringRequired The access_token of the OAuth application.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`404`	Resource not found
`422`	Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

Code samples

post/applications/{client_id}/token

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/applications/Iv1.8a61f9b3a7aba766/token \
  -d '{"access_token":"e72e16c7e42f292c6912e7710c838347ae178b4a"}'

Response

Status: 200

{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/1",
  "scopes": [
    "public_repo",
    "user"
  ],
  "token": "ghu_16C7e42F292c6912E7710c838347Ae178B4a",
  "token_last_eight": "Ae178B4a",
  "hashed_token": "25f94a2a5c7fbaf499c665bc73d67c1c87e496da8985131633ee0a95819db2e8",
  "app": {
    "url": "http://my-github-app.com",
    "name": "my github app",
    "client_id": "Iv1.8a61f9b3a7aba766"
  },
  "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",
  "expires_at": "2011-09-08T17:26:27Z",
  "user": {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
    "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
    "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
    "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
    "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
    "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
    "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
    "type": "User",
    "site_admin": false
  }
}

Reset a token

OAuth applications can use this API method to reset a valid OAuth token without end-user involvement. Applications must save the "token" property in the response because changes take effect immediately. You must use Basic Authentication when accessing this endpoint, using the OAuth application's client_id and client_secret as the username and password. Invalid tokens will return 404 NOT FOUND.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`client_id`stringRequired The client ID of the GitHub app.
Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
`access_token`stringRequired The access_token of the OAuth application.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`422`	Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

Code samples

patch/applications/{client_id}/token

curl \
  -X PATCH \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/applications/Iv1.8a61f9b3a7aba766/token \
  -d '{"access_token":"e72e16c7e42f292c6912e7710c838347ae178b4a"}'

Response

Status: 200

{
  "id": 1,
  "url": "https://api.github.com/authorizations/1",
  "scopes": [
    "public_repo",
    "user"
  ],
  "token": "ghu_16C7e42F292c6912E7710c838347Ae178B4a",
  "token_last_eight": "Ae178B4a",
  "hashed_token": "25f94a2a5c7fbaf499c665bc73d67c1c87e496da8985131633ee0a95819db2e8",
  "app": {
    "url": "http://my-github-app.com",
    "name": "my github app",
    "client_id": "Iv1.8a61f9b3a7aba766"
  },
  "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",
  "expires_at": "2011-09-08T17:26:27Z",
  "user": {
    "login": "octocat",
    "id": 1,
    "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
    "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
    "gravatar_id": "",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
    "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
    "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
    "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
    "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
    "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
    "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
    "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
    "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
    "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
    "type": "User",
    "site_admin": false
  }
}

Delete an app token

OAuth application owners can revoke a single token for an OAuth application. You must use Basic Authentication when accessing this endpoint, using the OAuth application's client_id and client_secret as the username and password.

Parameters

Headers
Name, Type, Description
`accept`string Setting to `application/vnd.github+json` is recommended.
Path parameters
Name, Type, Description
`client_id`stringRequired The client ID of the GitHub app.
Body parameters
Name, Type, Description
`access_token`stringRequired The OAuth access token used to authenticate to the GitHub API.

HTTP response status codes

Status code	Description
`204`	No Content
`422`	Validation failed, or the endpoint has been spammed.

Code samples

delete/applications/{client_id}/token

curl \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>" \
  http(s)://HOSTNAME/api/v3/applications/Iv1.8a61f9b3a7aba766/token \
  -d '{"access_token":"e72e16c7e42f292c6912e7710c838347ae178b4a"}'

Response

Status: 204