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Applies to BloodHound Enterprise and CE This page covers creating a Fine-grained Personal Access Token (PAT) for GitHound. PATs have a rate limit of 5,000 API requests per hour.
For higher rate limits, see Configure a GitHub App Installation.

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Create a Fine-grained Personal Access Token

  1. Navigate to your GitHub Profile > Settings.
    GitHub profile settings menu
  2. Go to Developer settings (bottom left).
    Developer settings in GitHub profile
  3. Navigate to Personal access tokens > Fine-grained tokens.
    Fine-grained tokens in Developer settings
  4. Click Generate new token.
    Generate new fine-grained token page
  5. Set the Resource owner to your target organization.
  6. Under Repository access, select All repositories.
    Select All repositories for token access
  7. Configure the required repository and organization permissions to Read-only.
    Token permissions configuration
  8. Click Generate token and copy the token value.
    Copy the generated token
    You must save the token value (preferably in a password manager) at this point. You will not be able to recover it later.
    For organizations with SAML SSO enabled, you must authorize the PAT for SSO access after creating it.

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Next Steps

After creating a token, proceed to Running the Collector to start collection.