diff --git a/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/check_polkadot_companion_build.sh b/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/check_polkadot_companion_build.sh
index a085076449..281fa8e1e8 100755
--- a/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/check_polkadot_companion_build.sh
+++ b/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/check_polkadot_companion_build.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 github_api_substrate_pull_url="https://api.github.com/repos/paritytech/substrate/pulls"
 # use github api v3 in order to access the data without authentication
-github_header="Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" 
+github_header="Authorization: token ${GITHUB_PR_TOKEN}" 
 
 boldprint () { printf "|\n| \033[1m${@}\033[0m\n|\n" ; }
 boldcat () { printf "|\n"; while read l; do printf "| \033[1m${l}\033[0m\n"; done; printf "|\n" ; }
diff --git a/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/check_polkadot_companion_status.sh b/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/check_polkadot_companion_status.sh
index 5387e68f25..b781831055 100755
--- a/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/check_polkadot_companion_status.sh
+++ b/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/check_polkadot_companion_status.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 github_api_substrate_pull_url="https://api.github.com/repos/paritytech/substrate/pulls"
 github_api_polkadot_pull_url="https://api.github.com/repos/paritytech/polkadot/pulls"
 # use github api v3 in order to access the data without authentication
-github_header="Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" 
+github_header="Authorization: token ${GITHUB_PR_TOKEN}" 
 
 boldprint () { printf "|\n| \033[1m${@}\033[0m\n|\n" ; }
 boldcat () { printf "|\n"; while read l; do printf "| \033[1m${l}\033[0m\n"; done; printf "|\n" ; }
diff --git a/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/skip_if_draft.sh b/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/skip_if_draft.sh
index a234a6c18e..cf6ea6a5b3 100755
--- a/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/skip_if_draft.sh
+++ b/substrate/.maintain/gitlab/skip_if_draft.sh
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 url="https://api.github.com/repos/paritytech/substrate/pulls/${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}"
 echo "[+] API URL: $url"
 
-draft_state=$(curl "$url" | jq -r .draft)
+draft_state=$(curl -H "Authorization: token ${GITHUB_PR_TOKEN}" "$url" | jq -r .draft)
 echo "[+] Draft state: $draft_state"
 
 if [ "$draft_state" = 'true' ]; then