# GitHub

>[GitHub](https://github.com/) is a developer platform that allows developers to create, 
> store, manage and share their code. It uses `Git` software, providing the 
> distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, 
> software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project.
 

## Installation and Setup

To access the GitHub API, you need a [personal access token](https://github.com/settings/tokens).


## Document Loader

There are two document loaders available for GitHub.

See a [usage example](/docs/integrations/document_loaders/github).

```python
from langchain_community.document_loaders import GitHubIssuesLoader
from langchain.document_loaders import GithubFileLoader
```