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resp = await session.get("/octocat")
```

### Obtain an app token for use with git

Under the hood, the `AppClient` uses the `AppAuth` and `AppInstallationAuth`
objects to obtain a GitHub token. It can also be used to pull or push from a
repository.

The token can be obtained as follows for a given installation of the app.

```python
app_auth = AppAuth(app_id, privkey)
inst_auth = AppInstallationAuth(app_auth, owner, repositories=["simple-github"])
return await inst_auth.get_token()
```

The `get_token` method doesn't natively support synchronous calls, but it can
easily be called from synchronous code with

```python
return asyncio.run(inst_auth.get_token())
```

The returned token (`ghs_XXX`) can be used directly to authenticate git+http
operations as the `git` user.

```
git remote set-url origin https://git:[email protected]/mozilla-releng/simple-github
```

### No Authentication

Finally you can create a client without any authentication. This is mainly
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