How To Get Your Personal Authentication/access Token On Github

Click on developer settings

1. Click on personal access token

   

From the tokens page, click on the generate new tokens button, then from the dropdown, choose the classic option

1. Verify it is you by entering your password

   

2. Add notes to say what the token is for and choose the expiry date for the token

   

   1. Select the scope for the access token and Click on Generate token.

Copy the token and keep it safe to use for the purpose you generated it. In case you generated the token for the purpose of pushing your codes to Github remote origin; use

git remote set-url origin https://<personal-access-token>@github.com/username/repository.git