Generate Gits’ Personal Access Token

A personal access token (PAT) is a generated string of characters that acts as a password for GitHub API interactions. In this article, we will learn how to generate a Personal Access Token on GitHub.

How to Create a Personal Access Token

Follow the steps given below to create a personal access token:

• Log in to GitHub: Navigate to GitHub and log in with your account credentials.

• Access the Tokens Settings:
  • Visit your profile settings directly by clicking this link: GitHub Settings.
  • Scroll down and from the sidebar on the left, click Developer settings.

• Under “Developer settings”:
  • Click Personal access tokens.
  • Click on Tokens (classic).

• The Git will prompt you to enter your GitHub password. Enter your Git password to continue.
• Set up the Token:
  • Give the token a descriptive name in Note. I added “For metaschool”.
  • You can set the expiration to 60 or 90 days or any custom date, you want to.
  • Select repo as the scopes or permissions.

• Scroll till the end and click Generate token.

• Copy the Personal access token (PAT): Once the PAT is generated, make sure you copy it and keep it secure. GitHub won’t show the token again. You can use this PAT as a password on the terminal.

Wrap up

Awesome, so we learned how to create a personal access token of GitHub which we can use as a password for GitHub API interactions.