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Apps / Creating GitHub Apps / Authenticate with a GitHub App /

Generating a user access token for a GitHub App

generate a user access token for your GitHub App in order to attribute app activity to a user. About user access tokens Note User access tokens that expire are

Authentication / Account security /

Token expiration and revocation

Your tokens can expire and can also be revoked by you, applications you have authorized, and GitHub itself. When a token has expired or has been revoked

Apps / Creating GitHub Apps / Authenticate with a GitHub App /

Generating an installation access token for a GitHub App

Learn how to generate an installation access token for your GitHub App. About installation access tokens In order to authenticate as an app installation

Apps / Creating GitHub Apps / Authenticate with a GitHub App /

Generating a JSON Web Token (JWT) for a GitHub App

how to create a JSON Web Token (JWT) to authenticate to certain REST API endpoints with your GitHub App. About JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) In order to authenticate

Authentication / Account security /

Managing your personal access tokens

personal access token in place of a password when authenticating to GitHub in the command line or with the API. Warning Treat your access tokens like passwords

Organizations / Manage programmatic access /

Setting a personal access token policy for your organization

to resources by applying policies to personal access tokens Note Fine-grained personal access token are currently in public preview and subject to change

GitHub Actions / Security / Security guides /

Automatic token authentication

GitHub provides a token that you can use to authenticate on behalf of GitHub Actions. About the GITHUB_TOKEN secret At the start of each workflow job,

Code security / Code scanning / Troubleshooting SARIF uploads /

GitHub token is required to upload SARIF results

upload process to use to access the repository. About this error A GitHub token is required to upload SARIF results but none was specified This error is

Apps / OAuth apps / Maintaining OAuth apps /

Troubleshooting OAuth app access token request errors

When exchanging a code for an access token, there are an additional set of errors that can occur. The format of these responses is determined by the accept

REST API / Organizations /

REST API endpoints for personal access tokens

Organizations/ Personal access tokens REST API endpoints for personal access tokens Use the REST API to manage fine-grained personal access tokens. Note Fine-grained