GitHub Apps documentation

Go deeper with GitHub by integrating with our APIs and webhooks, customizing your GitHub workflow, and building and sharing apps with the community.

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Authenticate with a GitHub App

Your GitHub App can authenticate as itself, as an app installation, or on behalf of a user.

Understand GitHub Apps

GitHub Apps let you build integrations to automate processes and extend GitHub's functionality.

Maintain and share your app

App managers can manage some or all of the GitHub App registrations owned by an account.

You can specify a URL that users will be redirected to after they install a GitHub App.

You can specify a URL that users will be redirected to after they authorize a GitHub App.

Understand GitHub Apps

Learn about what a GitHub App is and why you would use a GitHub App.

Write code for a GitHub App

You need to write code to add functionality to your GitHub App.

Maintain and share your app

You can test new optional features for your GitHub Apps.

Build and manage OAuth apps

You can test new optional features for your OAuth apps.

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