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Reputation: 3109

can't find api token in Github

I've just installed GitExtension. Everything is configured. When I click on "Clone Github Repository", It opens a dialog box titled "Github Configuration" with following input boxes: 1. User 2. Password 3. APIToken when I click on "Get Api Token" button, It takes me to my github.com profile. But there's no API key in there. I searched for an hour approximately, but couldn't figure out where to find it.

Note: It seems that GitHub recently changed their authentication method! I ain't sure what to do now. Any help would be appreciated..

Upvotes: 9

Views: 13857

Answers (2)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1329492

API tokens seem to be back since May 2013: "Personal API tokens"
(see your setting page)

The advantage to using a token over putting your password into a script is that a token can be revoked, and you can generate lots of them.

Upvotes: 6

anuragbh
anuragbh

Reputation: 593

API Tokens are not supported by Github anymore https://github.com/blog/1090-github-api-moving-on

You do not need the API Token to work with git.

It might be that GitExtension has not updated their authentication method. There is a command line Git tool for Windows, this will work: http://msysgit.github.com/

Upvotes: 9

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