Creating GitHub Apps

You can build integrations with the GitHub APIs to add flexibility and reduce friction in your own workflow. You can also share integrations with others on GitHub Marketplace.

Understanding the differences between GitHub Apps and OAuth Apps will help you decide which app you want to create. An OAuth App acts as a GitHub user, whereas a GitHub App uses its own identity when installed on an organization or on repositories within an organization.

Rate limits restrict the rate of traffic to GitHub.com, to help ensure consistent access for all users.

You can create a GitHub App under your personal account or under any organization you own.

Your GitHub App can subscribe to webhook events to receive notifications whenever certain activity occurs.

The permissions of a GitHub App determine what the app can do with GitHub's APIs and what webhooks the app can receive.

When setting up a GitHub App, you can make it public so that other GitHub users or organizations can install the app, or private so that you can only install it on the account that owns the app.

A GitHub App Manifest is a preconfigured GitHub App you can share with anyone who wants to use your app in their personal repositories. The manifest flow allows someone to quickly create, install, and start extending a GitHub App without needing to register the app or connect the registration to the hosted app code.

You can use URL query parameters to help other people quickly set up a new GitHub App with a specific configuration you have preselected.

You can replace the default badge on your GitHub App by uploading your own logo image and customizing the background.

You can specify a URL that users will be redirected to after they authorize an app.