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Authenticating to the REST API
Learn how to authenticate your REST API requests.
- Authenticating to the REST API
- Keeping your API credentials secure
- Endpoints available for GitHub App installation access tokens
- Endpoints available for GitHub App user access tokens
- Endpoints available for fine-grained personal access tokens
- Permissions required for GitHub Apps
- Permissions required for fine-grained personal access tokens