When a third-party application wants to identify you by your GitHub login, you'll see a page with the developer contact information and a list of the specific data that's being requested.
Contacting the application developer
Because an application is developed by a third-party who isn't GitHub, we don't know exactly how an application uses the data it's requesting access to. If you have questions or concerns about an application, you should contact the application developer. To find contact information for an application, you can click the account name of the developer at the top of the app's authorization page.
If the developer has chosen to supply further information, the right-hand side of the authorization page may also provide a detailed description of the application, as well as its associated website.
Types of application access and data
Applications can have read or write access to your GitHub data.
- Read access only allows an application to look at your data.
- Write access allows an application to change your data.
About OAuth scopes
Scopes are named groups of permissions that an application can request to access both public and non-public data.
When you want to use a third-party application that integrates with GitHub, that application lets you know what type of access to your data will be required. If you grant access to the application, then the application will be able to perform actions on your behalf, such as reading or modifying data. For example, if you want to use an app that requests user:email scope, the app will have read-only access to your private email addresses. For more information, see