diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6010d7119..a0a5ac5f7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 - Add `validate_access_token` function to providers
     - This can be used to verify the access token received from providers.
+    - Implemented `validate_access_token` for the Github provider.
 
 ## [0.16.3] - 2023-09-28
 
diff --git a/supertokens_python/recipe/thirdparty/providers/github.py b/supertokens_python/recipe/thirdparty/providers/github.py
index e14c03acc..81f9e86f1 100644
--- a/supertokens_python/recipe/thirdparty/providers/github.py
+++ b/supertokens_python/recipe/thirdparty/providers/github.py
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ async def validate_access_token(
         f"{config.client_id}:{client_secret}".encode()
     ).decode()
 
-    # POST request to get applications response
     url = f"https://api.github.com/applications/{config.client_id}/token"
     headers = {
         "Authorization": f"Basic {basic_auth_token}",
@@ -100,7 +99,6 @@ async def validate_access_token(
 
     resp = requests.post(url, headers=headers, data=payload)
 
-    # Error handling and validation
     if resp.status_code != 200:
         raise ValueError("Invalid access token")
 
diff --git a/tests/thirdparty/test_providers.py b/tests/thirdparty/test_thirdparty.py
similarity index 100%
rename from tests/thirdparty/test_providers.py
rename to tests/thirdparty/test_thirdparty.py