Generating a Personal Access Token for GitHub authentication

Log in to GitHub.

On the top-right corner click your profile photo, then click Settings.

On Your personal account page, in the left panel, click Developer settings.

Click Personal access tokens.

Click Generate new token.

On the New personal access token screen, do the followings:

1. In the Note field, describe in brief what’s this token for. 

2. In the Expiration field, select the expiration period for the token.

   You can define a custom expiry period for the token by selecting Custom and then picking up the date from the calendar.

3. Select the scopes, or permissions you'd like to grant to this token. 

4. Click Generate token.