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You'll learn about authenticating as an installation in the [next section](#authenticating-as-an-installation).
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[Authenticating as a GitHub App](/apps/creating-github-apps/authenticating-with-a-github-app/about-authentication-with-a-github-app) lets you do a couple of things:
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Authenticating as a GitHub App lets you do a couple of things:
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* You can retrieve high-level management information about your GitHub App.
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* You can request access tokens for an installation of the app.
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For example, you would authenticate as a GitHub App to retrieve a list of the accounts (organization and personal) that have installed your app. But this authentication method doesn't allow you to do much with the API. To access a repository's data and perform operations on behalf of the installation, you need to authenticate as an installation. To do that, you'll need to authenticate as a GitHub App first to request an installation access token.
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For example, you would authenticate as a GitHub App to retrieve a list of the accounts (organization and personal) that have installed your app. But this authentication method doesn't allow you to do much with the API. To access a repository's data and perform operations on behalf of the installation, you need to authenticate as an installation. To do that, you'll need to authenticate as a GitHub App first to request an installation access token. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/apps/creating-github-apps/authenticating-with-a-github-app/about-authentication-with-a-github-app)."
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Before you can use the Octokit.rb library to make API calls, you'll need to initialize an [Octokit client](http://octokit.github.io/octokit.rb/Octokit/Client.html) authenticated as a GitHub App. The `authenticate_app` helper method does just that!
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