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GitHub personal access tokens for TiddlyWiki

tiddlywiki-tokens.md

If you use the GitHub saver for Tiddlywiki, you will need to generate a Personal Access Token. Instructions for how exactly to do this, and what permissions you need, are annoyingly hard to come by in 2026.

  1. Click your user icon (top right), then click Settings.

  2. Scroll down and click Developer Settings (bottom of left hand menu) then click Personal access tokens → Fine-grained tokens on the left.

  3. Configure the token:

    • Give the token a name (e.g. “TiddlyWiki saver”)
    • Set it to No expiration.
    • For “Repository Access”, select Only select repositories and pick the repo for your TiddlyWiki.
    • Under “Permissions”, click Add permissions. Select Contents and then change its access level to Read and write.

  4. Click Generate Token and make sure to save a copy of it somewhere safe.