Check an authorization

GET {{baseUrl}}/applications/:client_id/tokens/:access_token

Deprecation Notice: GitHub will replace and discontinue OAuth endpoints containing access_token in the path parameter. We are introducing new endpoints that allow you to securely manage tokens for OAuth Apps by using access_token as an input parameter. The OAuth Application API will be removed on May 5, 2021. For more information, including scheduled brownouts, see the blog post.

OAuth applications can use a special API method for checking OAuth token validity without exceeding the normal rate limits for failed login attempts. Authentication works differently with this particular endpoint. You must use Basic Authentication when accessing this endpoint, using the OAuth application's client_id and client_secret as the username and password. Invalid tokens will return 404 NOT FOUND.

RESPONSES

status: OK

{"id":1,"url":"https://api.github.com/authorizations/1","scopes":["public_repo"],"token":"abcdefgh12345678","token_last_eight":"12345678","hashed_token":"25f94a2a5c7fbaf499c665bc73d67c1c87e496da8985131633ee0a95819db2e8","app":{"url":"http://my-github-app.com","name":"my github app","client_id":"abcde12345fghij67890"},"note":"optional note","note_url":"http://optional/note/url","updated_at":"2011-09-06T20:39:23Z","created_at":"2011-09-06T17:26:27Z","fingerprint":"jklmnop12345678","user":{"login":"octocat","id":1,"node_id":"MDQ6VXNlcjE=","avatar_url":"https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/octocat","html_url":"https://github.com/octocat","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false}}