Create an OAuth authorization for an app
The Authorizations API is an easy way to create an OAuth authorization using Basic Auth. Just POST your desired scopes and optional note and you get a token back:
curl -u pengwynn -d '{"scopes": ["user", "gist"]}' \ https://api.github.com/authorizations
This call creates a token for the authenticated user tied to a special "API" OAuth application.
We now support creating tokens for your own OAuth application by passing your
twenty character client_id
and forty character client_secret
as found in
the settings page for your OAuth application.
curl -u pengwynn -d '{ \ "scopes": ["user", "gist"], \ "client_id": "abcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcde" \ "client_secret": "abcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcdeabcde" \ }' \ ' https://api.github.com/authorizations
No more implementing the web flow just to get a token tied to your app's rate limit.