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How to check if a GitHub Personal Access Token is valid

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curl -H "Authorization: token <ENTER_YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN>" https://api.github.com/users/ebicoglu -I

ZSendokame commented Dec 13, 2022

Hi! I found the Token on the events API (at https://api.github.com/events), I don't know if it's saved by GitHub, but it disappeared after some time
The API logs every event made by people (Pull requests, push, etc.), it saves the data of every event, including the e-mail that Git uses to push code
So while seeing the JSON, I found the token