curl -X GET 'https://api.github.com/' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10'

# GET / (GitHub API)
Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization; GitHub token; required.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> GitHub API Root

## Critical Gotchas
* GitHub recommends an `Accept: application/vnd.github+json` header and an explicit `X-GitHub-Api-Version` header.
* Fine-grained tokens only authorize repositories and permissions selected when the token is created.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.github.com/' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10'

## Response example
{"current_user_url":"string","current_user_authorizations_html_url":"string"}

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GET

GET / — GitHub API

GitHub token (required); https://api.github.com

GitHub API

GitHub API Root

Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <GITHUB_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

Actions Try in browser→

Agents: curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" this URL
→ 106 tokens · Vary: Accept

Critical gotchas

GitHub recommends an Accept: application/vnd.github+json header and an explicit X-GitHub-Api-Version header.

Fine-grained tokens only authorize repositories and permissions selected when the token is created.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.github.com/' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10'

Parameters

No parameters.

Response 200 OK

{
  "current_user_url": "string",
  "current_user_authorizations_html_url": "string",
  "code_search_url": "string",
  "commit_search_url": "string",
  "emails_url": "string",
  "emojis_url": "string",
  "events_url": "string",
  "feeds_url": "string",
  "followers_url": "string",
  "following_url": "string",
  "gists_url": "string",
  "issue_search_url": "string",
  "issues_url": "string",
  "keys_url": "string",
  "label_search_url": "string",
  "notifications_url": "string",
  "organization_url": "string",
  "organization_repositories_url": "string",
  "organization_teams_url": "string",
  "public_gists_url": "string",
  "rate_limit_url": "string",
  "repository_url": "string",
  "repository_search_url": "string",
  "current_user_repositories_url": "string",
  "starred_url": "string",
  "starred_gists_url": "string",
  "topic_search_url": "string",
  "user_url": "string",
  "user_organizations_url": "string",
  "user_repositories_url": "string",
  "user_search_url": "string"
}

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