Github App Authentication with JWT

[kschmitt20]

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We created a Github app that we want to authenticate in order to access the Github API. We are trying to do so following the JWT token method (referencing this doc: https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/building-github-apps/authenticating-with-github-apps#jwt-payload). We have followed all the steps and continually keep getting an error in the browser of
"A JSON web token could not be decoded". Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[igor-wojtkiewicz]

I am also getting the same error ( "A JSON web token could not be decoded" ) when trying to use JWT generated with Python template ( https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/developers/apps/building-github-apps/authenticating-with-github-apps#using-python ).

[colossalchicken]

This may help. It's for CloudFlare workers, but they have practically the same APIs as a normal web browser:
https://github.com/tsndr/cloudflare-worker-jwt

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