diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index bc79cd4..af333c0 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ author: 'GitHub'
 inputs: 
   repo-token:
     description: 'The GITHUB_TOKEN secret'
+  shared-configurations-token:
+    description: 'The Github token used to access shared configs'
   configuration-path:
     description: 'The path for the label configurations'
     default: '.github/labeler.yml'
diff --git a/dist/index.js b/dist/index.js
index 45c4c32..cc1d054 100644
--- a/dist/index.js
+++ b/dist/index.js
@@ -14539,6 +14539,8 @@ function run() {
     return __awaiter(this, void 0, void 0, function* () {
         try {
             const token = core.getInput("repo-token", { required: true });
+            const sharedConfigsToken = core.getInput("shared-configurations-token", { required: false }) ||
+                token;
             const configPath = core.getInput("configuration-path", { required: true });
             const sharedConfigurations = JSON.parse(core.getInput("shared-configurations", {
                 required: true,
@@ -14550,6 +14552,7 @@ function run() {
                 return;
             }
             const client = new github.GitHub(token);
+            const sharedConfigsClient = new github.GitHub(sharedConfigsToken);
             const { data: pullRequest } = yield client.pulls.get({
                 owner: github.context.repo.owner,
                 repo: github.context.repo.repo,
@@ -14561,7 +14564,7 @@ function run() {
             const sharedConfigGlobs = yield Promise.all(sharedConfigurations.map((config) => {
                 const [, repoOwner, repoName, repoPath] = config.match(/([^/]+)\/([^/]+)\/?(.*)?@/);
                 const [, repoRef] = config.match("@(.*)");
-                return getLabelGlobs(client, repoPath, {
+                return getLabelGlobs(sharedConfigsClient, repoPath, {
                     repoOwner,
                     repoName,
                     repoRef,
@@ -29715,7 +29718,7 @@ module.exports = new Schema({
 /***/ 954:
 /***/ (function(module) {
 
-module.exports = {"_args":[["@octokit/rest@16.43.1","/Users/jonathannarwold/repos/labeler-action"]],"_from":"@octokit/rest@16.43.1","_id":"@octokit/rest@16.43.1","_inBundle":false,"_integrity":"sha512-gfFKwRT/wFxq5qlNjnW2dh+qh74XgTQ2B179UX5K1HYCluioWj8Ndbgqw2PVqa1NnVJkGHp2ovMpVn/DImlmkw==","_location":"/@octokit/rest","_phantomChildren":{"@octokit/types":"2.14.0","deprecation":"2.3.1","once":"1.4.0","os-name":"3.1.0"},"_requested":{"type":"version","registry":true,"raw":"@octokit/rest@16.43.1","name":"@octokit/rest","escapedName":"@octokit%2frest","scope":"@octokit","rawSpec":"16.43.1","saveSpec":null,"fetchSpec":"16.43.1"},"_requiredBy":["/@actions/github"],"_resolved":"https://registry.npmjs.org/@octokit/rest/-/rest-16.43.1.tgz","_spec":"16.43.1","_where":"/Users/jonathannarwold/repos/labeler-action","author":{"name":"Gregor Martynus","url":"https://github.com/gr2m"},"bugs":{"url":"https://github.com/octokit/rest.js/issues"},"bundlesize":[{"path":"./dist/octokit-rest.min.js.gz","maxSize":"33 kB"}],"contributors":[{"name":"Mike de Boer","email":"info@mikedeboer.nl"},{"name":"Fabian Jakobs","email":"fabian@c9.io"},{"name":"Joe Gallo","email":"joe@brassafrax.com"},{"name":"Gregor Martynus","url":"https://github.com/gr2m"}],"dependencies":{"@octokit/auth-token":"^2.4.0","@octokit/plugin-paginate-rest":"^1.1.1","@octokit/plugin-request-log":"^1.0.0","@octokit/plugin-rest-endpoint-methods":"2.4.0","@octokit/request":"^5.2.0","@octokit/request-error":"^1.0.2","atob-lite":"^2.0.0","before-after-hook":"^2.0.0","btoa-lite":"^1.0.0","deprecation":"^2.0.0","lodash.get":"^4.4.2","lodash.set":"^4.3.2","lodash.uniq":"^4.5.0","octokit-pagination-methods":"^1.1.0","once":"^1.4.0","universal-user-agent":"^4.0.0"},"description":"GitHub REST API client for Node.js","devDependencies":{"@gimenete/type-writer":"^0.1.3","@octokit/auth":"^1.1.1","@octokit/fixtures-server":"^5.0.6","@octokit/graphql":"^4.2.0","@types/node":"^13.1.0","bundlesize":"^0.18.0","chai":"^4.1.2","compression-webpack-plugin":"^3.1.0","cypress":"^3.0.0","glob":"^7.1.2","http-proxy-agent":"^4.0.0","lodash.camelcase":"^4.3.0","lodash.merge":"^4.6.1","lodash.upperfirst":"^4.3.1","lolex":"^5.1.2","mkdirp":"^1.0.0","mocha":"^7.0.1","mustache":"^4.0.0","nock":"^11.3.3","npm-run-all":"^4.1.2","nyc":"^15.0.0","prettier":"^1.14.2","proxy":"^1.0.0","semantic-release":"^17.0.0","sinon":"^8.0.0","sinon-chai":"^3.0.0","sort-keys":"^4.0.0","string-to-arraybuffer":"^1.0.0","string-to-jsdoc-comment":"^1.0.0","typescript":"^3.3.1","webpack":"^4.0.0","webpack-bundle-analyzer":"^3.0.0","webpack-cli":"^3.0.0"},"files":["index.js","index.d.ts","lib","plugins"],"homepage":"https://github.com/octokit/rest.js#readme","keywords":["octokit","github","rest","api-client"],"license":"MIT","name":"@octokit/rest","nyc":{"ignore":["test"]},"publishConfig":{"access":"public"},"release":{"publish":["@semantic-release/npm",{"path":"@semantic-release/github","assets":["dist/*","!dist/*.map.gz"]}]},"repository":{"type":"git","url":"git+https://github.com/octokit/rest.js.git"},"scripts":{"build":"npm-run-all build:*","build:browser":"npm-run-all build:browser:*","build:browser:development":"webpack --mode development --entry . --output-library=Octokit --output=./dist/octokit-rest.js --profile --json > dist/bundle-stats.json","build:browser:production":"webpack --mode production --entry . --plugin=compression-webpack-plugin --output-library=Octokit --output-path=./dist --output-filename=octokit-rest.min.js --devtool source-map","build:ts":"npm run -s update-endpoints:typescript","coverage":"nyc report --reporter=html && open coverage/index.html","generate-bundle-report":"webpack-bundle-analyzer dist/bundle-stats.json --mode=static --no-open --report dist/bundle-report.html","lint":"prettier --check '{lib,plugins,scripts,test}/**/*.{js,json,ts}' 'docs/*.{js,json}' 'docs/src/**/*' index.js README.md package.json","lint:fix":"prettier --write '{lib,plugins,scripts,test}/**/*.{js,json,ts}' 'docs/*.{js,json}' 'docs/src/**/*' index.js README.md package.json","postvalidate:ts":"tsc --noEmit --target es6 test/typescript-validate.ts","prebuild:browser":"mkdirp dist/","pretest":"npm run -s lint","prevalidate:ts":"npm run -s build:ts","start-fixtures-server":"octokit-fixtures-server","test":"nyc mocha test/mocha-node-setup.js \"test/*/**/*-test.js\"","test:browser":"cypress run --browser chrome","update-endpoints":"npm-run-all update-endpoints:*","update-endpoints:fetch-json":"node scripts/update-endpoints/fetch-json","update-endpoints:typescript":"node scripts/update-endpoints/typescript","validate:ts":"tsc --target es6 --noImplicitAny index.d.ts"},"types":"index.d.ts","version":"16.43.1"};
+module.exports = {"name":"@octokit/rest","version":"16.43.1","publishConfig":{"access":"public"},"description":"GitHub REST API client for Node.js","keywords":["octokit","github","rest","api-client"],"author":"Gregor Martynus (https://github.com/gr2m)","contributors":[{"name":"Mike de Boer","email":"info@mikedeboer.nl"},{"name":"Fabian Jakobs","email":"fabian@c9.io"},{"name":"Joe Gallo","email":"joe@brassafrax.com"},{"name":"Gregor Martynus","url":"https://github.com/gr2m"}],"repository":"https://github.com/octokit/rest.js","dependencies":{"@octokit/auth-token":"^2.4.0","@octokit/plugin-paginate-rest":"^1.1.1","@octokit/plugin-request-log":"^1.0.0","@octokit/plugin-rest-endpoint-methods":"2.4.0","@octokit/request":"^5.2.0","@octokit/request-error":"^1.0.2","atob-lite":"^2.0.0","before-after-hook":"^2.0.0","btoa-lite":"^1.0.0","deprecation":"^2.0.0","lodash.get":"^4.4.2","lodash.set":"^4.3.2","lodash.uniq":"^4.5.0","octokit-pagination-methods":"^1.1.0","once":"^1.4.0","universal-user-agent":"^4.0.0"},"devDependencies":{"@gimenete/type-writer":"^0.1.3","@octokit/auth":"^1.1.1","@octokit/fixtures-server":"^5.0.6","@octokit/graphql":"^4.2.0","@types/node":"^13.1.0","bundlesize":"^0.18.0","chai":"^4.1.2","compression-webpack-plugin":"^3.1.0","cypress":"^3.0.0","glob":"^7.1.2","http-proxy-agent":"^4.0.0","lodash.camelcase":"^4.3.0","lodash.merge":"^4.6.1","lodash.upperfirst":"^4.3.1","lolex":"^5.1.2","mkdirp":"^1.0.0","mocha":"^7.0.1","mustache":"^4.0.0","nock":"^11.3.3","npm-run-all":"^4.1.2","nyc":"^15.0.0","prettier":"^1.14.2","proxy":"^1.0.0","semantic-release":"^17.0.0","sinon":"^8.0.0","sinon-chai":"^3.0.0","sort-keys":"^4.0.0","string-to-arraybuffer":"^1.0.0","string-to-jsdoc-comment":"^1.0.0","typescript":"^3.3.1","webpack":"^4.0.0","webpack-bundle-analyzer":"^3.0.0","webpack-cli":"^3.0.0"},"types":"index.d.ts","scripts":{"coverage":"nyc report --reporter=html && open coverage/index.html","lint":"prettier --check '{lib,plugins,scripts,test}/**/*.{js,json,ts}' 'docs/*.{js,json}' 'docs/src/**/*' index.js README.md package.json","lint:fix":"prettier --write '{lib,plugins,scripts,test}/**/*.{js,json,ts}' 'docs/*.{js,json}' 'docs/src/**/*' index.js README.md package.json","pretest":"npm run -s lint","test":"nyc mocha test/mocha-node-setup.js \"test/*/**/*-test.js\"","test:browser":"cypress run --browser chrome","build":"npm-run-all build:*","build:ts":"npm run -s update-endpoints:typescript","prebuild:browser":"mkdirp dist/","build:browser":"npm-run-all build:browser:*","build:browser:development":"webpack --mode development --entry . --output-library=Octokit --output=./dist/octokit-rest.js --profile --json > dist/bundle-stats.json","build:browser:production":"webpack --mode production --entry . --plugin=compression-webpack-plugin --output-library=Octokit --output-path=./dist --output-filename=octokit-rest.min.js --devtool source-map","generate-bundle-report":"webpack-bundle-analyzer dist/bundle-stats.json --mode=static --no-open --report dist/bundle-report.html","update-endpoints":"npm-run-all update-endpoints:*","update-endpoints:fetch-json":"node scripts/update-endpoints/fetch-json","update-endpoints:typescript":"node scripts/update-endpoints/typescript","prevalidate:ts":"npm run -s build:ts","validate:ts":"tsc --target es6 --noImplicitAny index.d.ts","postvalidate:ts":"tsc --noEmit --target es6 test/typescript-validate.ts","start-fixtures-server":"octokit-fixtures-server"},"license":"MIT","files":["index.js","index.d.ts","lib","plugins"],"nyc":{"ignore":["test"]},"release":{"publish":["@semantic-release/npm",{"path":"@semantic-release/github","assets":["dist/*","!dist/*.map.gz"]}]},"bundlesize":[{"path":"./dist/octokit-rest.min.js.gz","maxSize":"33 kB"}]};
 
 /***/ }),
 
diff --git a/src/main.ts b/src/main.ts
index abcf218..cb989a4 100644
--- a/src/main.ts
+++ b/src/main.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ const uniq = (arr) => [...new Set(arr)];
 async function run() {
   try {
     const token = core.getInput("repo-token", { required: true });
+    const sharedConfigsToken =
+      core.getInput("shared-configurations-token", { required: false }) ||
+      token;
     const configPath = core.getInput("configuration-path", { required: true });
     const sharedConfigurations = JSON.parse(
       core.getInput("shared-configurations", {
@@ -36,6 +39,7 @@ async function run() {
     }
 
     const client = new github.GitHub(token);
+    const sharedConfigsClient = new github.GitHub(sharedConfigsToken);
 
     const { data: pullRequest } = await client.pulls.get({
       owner: github.context.repo.owner,
@@ -58,7 +62,7 @@ async function run() {
           /([^/]+)\/([^/]+)\/?(.*)?@/
         );
         const [, repoRef] = config.match("@(.*)");
-        return getLabelGlobs(client, repoPath, {
+        return getLabelGlobs(sharedConfigsClient, repoPath, {
           repoOwner,
           repoName,
           repoRef,