diff --git a/src/test/java/org/arquillian/tests/utilities/GitHubProjectVersionExtractor.java b/src/test/java/org/arquillian/tests/utilities/GitHubProjectVersionExtractor.java
index 4013cd02465..7e6c0a8b902 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/arquillian/tests/utilities/GitHubProjectVersionExtractor.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/arquillian/tests/utilities/GitHubProjectVersionExtractor.java
@@ -3,11 +3,21 @@
 import com.google.gson.Gson;
 import com.google.gson.JsonArray;
 import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Map;
 import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
 import org.jboss.arquillian.drone.webdriver.utils.HttpClient;
+import org.jboss.arquillian.drone.webdriver.utils.Validate;
+
+import static org.jboss.arquillian.drone.webdriver.binary.downloading.source.GitHubSource.AUTHORIZATION_HEADER_KEY;
 
 public class GitHubProjectVersionExtractor {
 
+    private static final String OAUTH_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER_VALUE_PREFIX = "Bearer ";
+
     private String TAGS_URL = "/tags";
     private String TAG_NAME = "name";
     private String project;
@@ -18,7 +28,7 @@ public GitHubProjectVersionExtractor(String project) {
 
     public String getLatestReleaseFromGitHub() {
         try {
-            final HttpClient.Response response = sentGetRequestWithPagination(project + TAGS_URL, 1);
+            final HttpClient.Response response = sentGetRequestWithPagination(project + TAGS_URL, 1, getAuthorizationHeader());
             JsonArray releaseTags = new Gson().fromJson(response.getPayload(), JsonElement.class).getAsJsonArray();
             if (releaseTags.size() == 0) {
                 return null;
@@ -29,11 +39,21 @@ public String getLatestReleaseFromGitHub() {
         }
     }
 
-    private HttpClient.Response sentGetRequestWithPagination(String url, int pageNumber) throws Exception {
+    private HttpClient.Response sentGetRequestWithPagination(String url, int pageNumber, Map<String, String> headers)
+        throws Exception {
         final URIBuilder uriBuilder = new URIBuilder(url);
         if (pageNumber != 1) {
             uriBuilder.setParameter("page", String.valueOf(pageNumber));
         }
-        return new HttpClient().get(uriBuilder.build().toString());
+        return new HttpClient().get(uriBuilder.build().toString(), headers);
+    }
+
+    private Map<String, String> getAuthorizationHeader() throws IOException {
+        Map<String, String> headers = new HashMap<>();
+        String token = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(".github-auth"))).trim();
+        if (Validate.nonEmpty(token)) {
+            headers.put(AUTHORIZATION_HEADER_KEY, OAUTH_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER_VALUE_PREFIX + token);
+        }
+        return headers;
     }
 }