title: How do I use a Personal Access Token with the Github API?
body: <p>I have a personal access token for my Github account that I am trying to use to test an app that has to have the functionality of following/unfollowing other users. The problem for me, I am having a really hard time figuring out how I am even supposed to use my token or how to go about doing it. </p>
  
  <p>I know from multiple other posts that you follow others with a PUT request on the Github API (which I can do with http requests in java), but the prerequisite is that you are already authenticated. In the documentation on Github, they use curl on a command line interface (<a href="https://developer.github.com/v3/#authentication" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.github.com/v3/#authentication</a>), but that is not what I am wanting to do.</p>
  
  <p>I am just generally lost as to what I should be looking for on how to go about doing this right now. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!</p>