# GitHub API: Forbidden when accessing repo settings

**URL:** <https://community.codecov.com/t/github-api-forbidden-when-accessing-repo-settings/918>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** github\
**Created:** [January 22, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/github-api-forbidden-when-accessing-repo-settings/918 "2020-01-22T06:28:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mkj28](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.codecov.com/mkj28/32/492_2.png) [@mkj28](https://community.codecov.com/u/mkj28)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/github-api-forbidden-when-accessing-repo-settings/918/1 "2020-01-22T06:28:33Z")

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### Description

Getting “GitHub API: Forbidden” when accessing repo settings page. Same when viewing coverage for specific commit. I can see overall coverage for the repo and list of commits.

This used to work when we set Codecov up ~1 year ago.

### Repository

Private

### Versions

Chrome 79 on Mac

### Additional Information

None?

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**Author:** ![mkj28](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.codecov.com/mkj28/32/492_2.png) [@mkj28](https://community.codecov.com/u/mkj28)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 6:32am UTC](https://community.codecov.com/t/github-api-forbidden-when-accessing-repo-settings/918/2 "2020-01-22T06:32:07Z")

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hmm went through the github app installation again (seemed no changes on the surface - since we already had it) - and now it works…

github audit log shows a new personal access token authorized