How to Create Personal Access Token in GitHub?

Here you will find lot of options related to your profile, login, security and other options. Scroll down and click on developer settings.

Then we could see few options like Github apps, O auth Apps, and Personal access token. Here click on Personal access token.

Just read this information if you want. This is the page where we could see list of tokens available on this account. This is the first time, we are going to create a token, so it wont list any tokens. Lets create new one now. just click on this button, generate new token.

This is the main form where we have to give information like, name for this token, Validity of token expiration and what kind of access we have to give for this token. Let me put Some meaningful name for this token.

Then expiration.  Expiration is nothing but a validity for the token. If the validation is expired, this token cannot be used.  You can give 7 days, 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, custom date and even you have no expiration.

It is always good from security prespective to set a expiration for any tokens. I just give no expiration, since it is just a demo. No expiration means, this token wont expire.

Then finally, scopes. On Scopes , we can customized the access like what kind of access we need to give for a token whether this token need pull access or push or clone or commit.

Select as per your requirement. Once all these scopes are defined. Click on generate token.

That’s all, we have got a new token.

Once you have created token, you would be able to modify only note and scopes. You cannot modify token and  expiration, keep it in mind.

If you want to change expiration, we have to regenerate token with new expiration.

This token has to be stored in a secured place. Also you wont see this page again. Because if we lost this token, it cannot be recovered. then we have to regenerate new token.

So lets test this token whether it works or not. Just copy this token and enter it in the password prompt.

Let me clone my remote repo again.

I am able to clone my remote repo with personal access token instead of password.

Yes, Single account can have multiple personal access token to have different expiration and different scopes.

That’s it. Hope you have got an idea, how to create personal access token in github?