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Hello and welcome to this video.

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In this video, I'll be showing you how to create a personal access token.

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What is a personal access token?

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Personal access tokens are basically an alternative to using passwords for authentication to GitHub.

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When you are using GitHub APIs or when you are referencing GitHub from the command line, GitHub advises

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that you set an expiry date when you create your personal access tokens.

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Also, as a security precaution, GitHub automatically removes personal access tokens that have not

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been used in a year to create a personal access token.

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Make sure that you have signed into your GitHub account and then where you have your profile, there

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is a dropdown click on the dropdown and select settings.

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On the left side.

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Scroll down on you see the option for developer settings.

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Click on that on the left hand side.

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Click on Personal Access Tokens on the right, click on the button that says Generate new token.

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You can give the token a descriptive name, for example.

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What is the token good to be used for?

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You can add that description here.

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Once you've added a note, you have to set an expiry date for the token.

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So the default there is 30, so you can click on the dropdown.

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You can extend that or set a custom, but it is not recommended that you have no expiry date.

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So I'm going to give my 90 days for now.

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Next, you have to select a scope for your token.

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So basically what you're doing, your selecting the scopes or the permissions that you would like to

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grant the token to have.

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So to use your token in order to access repository, for example, from the command line, you need

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to select the option that says Ripple.

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So that will enable you to access your repositories from the command line so that the scopes I need.

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I've got triple checked.

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I've also got admin checked here, and I've also got the ability to delete a repo check.

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So you just need to select the relevant scopes you want your token to work in.

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So these will give your token access to these various groups that have been selected.

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So once you've done that, click on the Generate token button.

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It's very important that you treat your token like a password and keep them secret and safe when working

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with the API or when using the token in the command line.

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Make sure that they are not exposed.

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You can always generate new tokens using the Generate New Token tab, or you can revoke all the tokens

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you have using the Revoke All option.

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You can also delete your token using the Delete option.