GitHub · Schema
Authorization
The authorization for an OAuth app, GitHub App, or a Personal Access Token.
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Properties
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| id | integer | |
| url | string | |
| scopes | arraynull | A list of scopes that this authorization is in. |
| token | string | |
| token_last_eight | stringnull | |
| hashed_token | stringnull | |
| app | object | |
| note | stringnull | |
| note_url | stringnull | |
| updated_at | string | |
| created_at | string | |
| fingerprint | stringnull | |
| user | object | |
| installation | object | |
| expires_at | stringnull |
JSON Schema
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/github/main/json-schema/github-authorization-schema.json",
"title": "Authorization",
"description": "The authorization for an OAuth app, GitHub App, or a Personal Access Token.",
"x-generated": "2026-10-03",
"x-method": "derived",
"x-generator": "derive-json-schema.py",
"x-source": "openapi/github-enterprise-admin-api-openapi.yml#/components/schemas/authorization",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "integer"
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"scopes": {
"description": "A list of scopes that this authorization is in.",
"type": [
"array",
"null"
],
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"token": {
"type": "string"
},
"token_last_eight": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"hashed_token": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"app": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"client_id": {
"type": "string"
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
}
},
"required": [
"client_id",
"name",
"url"
]
},
"note": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"note_url": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"format": "uri"
},
"updated_at": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"created_at": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"fingerprint": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"user": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/nullable-simple-user"
},
"installation": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/nullable-scoped-installation"
},
"expires_at": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"format": "date-time"
}
},
"required": [
"app",
"id",
"note",
"note_url",
"scopes",
"token",
"hashed_token",
"token_last_eight",
"fingerprint",
"url",
"created_at",
"updated_at",
"expires_at"
],
"$defs": {
"app-permissions": {
"title": "App Permissions",
"type": "object",
"description": "The permissions granted to the user access token.",
"properties": {
"actions": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for GitHub Actions workflows, workflow runs, and artifacts.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"administration": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for repository creation, deletion, settings, teams, and collaborators creation.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"checks": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for checks on code.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"codespaces": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to create, edit, delete, and list Codespaces.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"contents": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for repository contents, commits, branches, downloads, releases, and merges.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"dependabot_secrets": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The leve of permission to grant the access token to manage Dependabot secrets.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"deployments": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for deployments and deployment statuses.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"environments": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for managing repository environments.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"issues": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for issues and related comments, assignees, labels, and milestones.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"metadata": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to search repositories, list collaborators, and access repository metadata.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"packages": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for packages published to GitHub Packages.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"pages": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to retrieve Pages statuses, configuration, and builds, as well as create new builds.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"pull_requests": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for pull requests and related comments, assignees, labels, milestones, and merges.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"repository_hooks": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage the post-receive hooks for a repository.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"repository_projects": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage repository projects, columns, and cards.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write",
"admin"
]
},
"secret_scanning_alerts": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to view and manage secret scanning alerts.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"secrets": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage repository secrets.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"security_events": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to view and manage security events like code scanning alerts.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"single_file": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage just a single file.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"statuses": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for commit statuses.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"vulnerability_alerts": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage Dependabot alerts.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"workflows": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to update GitHub Actions workflow files.",
"enum": [
"write"
]
},
"members": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for organization teams and members.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"organization_administration": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage access to an organization.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"organization_custom_roles": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for custom repository roles management.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"organization_copilot_seat_management": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for managing access to GitHub Copilot for members of an organization with a Copilot Business subscription. This property is in beta and is subject to change.",
"enum": [
"write"
]
},
"organization_announcement_banners": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to view and manage announcement banners for an organization.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"organization_events": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to view events triggered by an activity in an organization.",
"enum": [
"read"
]
},
"organization_hooks": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage the post-receive hooks for an organization.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"organization_personal_access_tokens": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for viewing and managing fine-grained personal access token requests to an organization.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"organization_personal_access_token_requests": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for viewing and managing fine-grained personal access tokens that have been approved by an organization.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"organization_plan": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for viewing an organization's plan.",
"enum": [
"read"
]
},
"organization_projects": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage organization projects and projects beta (where available).",
"enum": [
"read",
"write",
"admin"
]
},
"organization_packages": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token for organization packages published to GitHub Packages.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"organization_secrets": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage organization secrets.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"organization_self_hosted_runners": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to view and manage GitHub Actions self-hosted runners available to an organization.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"organization_user_blocking": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to view and manage users blocked by the organization.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"team_discussions": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage team discussions and related comments.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"email_addresses": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage the email addresses belonging to a user.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"followers": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage the followers belonging to a user.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"git_ssh_keys": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage git SSH keys.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"gpg_keys": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to view and manage GPG keys belonging to a user.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"interaction_limits": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to view and manage interaction limits on a repository.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
},
"profile": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to manage the profile settings belonging to a user.",
"enum": [
"write"
]
},
"starring": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The level of permission to grant the access token to list and manage repositories a user is starring.",
"enum": [
"read",
"write"
]
}
}
},
"nullable-scoped-installation": {
"title": "Scoped Installation",
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"properties": {
"permissions": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/app-permissions"
},
"repository_selection": {
"description": "Describe whether all repositories have been selected or there's a selection involved",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"all",
"selected"
]
},
"single_file_name": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"has_multiple_single_files": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"single_file_paths": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"repositories_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"account": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/simple-user"
}
},
"required": [
"permissions",
"repository_selection",
"single_file_name",
"repositories_url",
"account"
]
},
"nullable-simple-user": {
"title": "Simple User",
"description": "A GitHub user.",
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"email": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"login": {
"type": "string"
},
"id": {
"type": "integer"
},
"node_id": {
"type": "string"
},
"avatar_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"gravatar_id": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"html_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"followers_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"following_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"gists_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"starred_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"subscriptions_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"organizations_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"repos_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"events_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"received_events_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"site_admin": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"starred_at": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"avatar_url",
"events_url",
"followers_url",
"following_url",
"gists_url",
"gravatar_id",
"html_url",
"id",
"node_id",
"login",
"organizations_url",
"received_events_url",
"repos_url",
"site_admin",
"starred_url",
"subscriptions_url",
"type",
"url"
]
},
"simple-user": {
"title": "Simple User",
"description": "A GitHub user.",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"email": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"login": {
"type": "string"
},
"id": {
"type": "integer"
},
"node_id": {
"type": "string"
},
"avatar_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"gravatar_id": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"html_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"followers_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"following_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"gists_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"starred_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"subscriptions_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"organizations_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"repos_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"events_url": {
"type": "string"
},
"received_events_url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"site_admin": {
"type": "boolean"
},
"starred_at": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"avatar_url",
"events_url",
"followers_url",
"following_url",
"gists_url",
"gravatar_id",
"html_url",
"id",
"node_id",
"login",
"organizations_url",
"received_events_url",
"repos_url",
"site_admin",
"starred_url",
"subscriptions_url",
"type",
"url"
]
}
}
}
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