curl -X PATCH 'https://api.github.com/user' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'

# PATCH /user (GitHub API)
Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization; GitHub token; required.
Request formats: application/json.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Update the authenticated user

## 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 PATCH 'https://api.github.com/user' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| name | body | string | No | The new name of the user. |
| email | body | string | No | The publicly visible email address of the user. |
| blog | body | string | No | The new blog URL of the user. |
| twitter_username | body | string | No | The new Twitter username of the user. |
| company | body | string | No | The new company of the user. |
| location | body | string | No | The new location of the user. |
| hireable | body | boolean | No | The new hiring availability of the user. |
| bio | body | string | No | The new short biography of the user. |

## Response example
{"login":"octocat","id":1}

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PATCH

PATCH /user — GitHub API

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

GitHub API

Update the authenticated user

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

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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 PATCH 'https://api.github.com/user' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
name	body	string	No	The new name of the user.
email	body	string	No	The publicly visible email address of the user.
blog	body	string	No	The new blog URL of the user.
twitter_username	body	string	No	The new Twitter username of the user.
company	body	string	No	The new company of the user.
location	body	string	No	The new location of the user.
hireable	body	boolean	No	The new hiring availability of the user.
bio	body	string	No	The new short biography of the user.

Response 200 OK

{
  "login": "octocat",
  "id": 1,
  "user_view_type": "string",
  "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
  "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
  "gravatar_id": "41d064eb2195891e12d0413f63227ea7",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
  "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
  "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
  "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
  "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
  "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
  "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
  "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
  "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
  "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
  "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
  "type": "User",
  "site_admin": true,
  "name": "monalisa octocat",
  "company": "GitHub",
  "blog": "https://github.com/blog",
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "notification_email": "[email protected]",
  "hireable": true,
  "bio": "There once was...",
  "twitter_username": "monalisa",
  "public_repos": 2,
  "public_gists": 1,
  "followers": 20,
  "following": 0,
  "created_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z",
  "updated_at": "2008-01-14T04:33:35Z",
  "private_gists": 81,
  "total_private_repos": 100,
  "owned_private_repos": 100,
  "disk_usage": 10000,
  "collaborators": 8,
  "two_factor_authentication": true,
  "plan": {
    "collaborators": 0,
    "name": "string",
    "space": 0,
    "private_repos": 0
  },
  "business_plus": true,
  "ldap_dn": "string"
}

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