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Example of authenticating a GitHub app using jwt in Python
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In [60] code block
resp = requests.post('https://api.github.com/installations/{}/access_tokens'.format(installation_id),
will be
resp = requests.post('https://api.github.com/app/installations/{}/access_tokens'.format(installation_id),

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This was super helpful. Thank you so much!

@toderesa97
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Just in case is wondering, these are the dependencies needed. Do not install jwt but pyjwt. (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33198428/jwt-module-object-has-no-attribute-encode).

certifi==2022.9.24
cffi==1.15.1
charset-normalizer==2.1.1
cryptography==38.0.3
idna==3.4
pycparser==2.21
PyJWT==2.6.0
requests==2.28.1
urllib3==1.26.12

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