Get Started with GitHub REST API
Explore the process of setting up a GitHub developer account, obtaining a personal access token, and validating it for GitHub REST API calls. Understand how this token enables you to interact with repositories, branches, pull requests, and commits via JavaScript.
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In this lesson, we’ll learn how to get the API key required to access the endpoints. An API key is a token that a client provides when making API calls.
What is GitHub?
GitHub is a platform where millions of developers contribute to and learn from different software code repositories. GitHub offers Git, a version control system where developers can make changes to the source code and review or restore previous versions. GitHub provides an opportunity to build a community where numerous developers can work on the same ...