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Authenticating to the REST API

Learn how to authenticate your REST API requests.

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

Keeping your API credentials secure

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.

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