diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/7375-fix-github-deploy-key-pagination.yml b/changelogs/fragments/7375-fix-github-deploy-key-pagination.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c95da981c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/7375-fix-github-deploy-key-pagination.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - "github_deploy_key - fix pagination behaviour causing a crash when only a single page of deploy keys exist (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/7375)."
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/plugins/modules/github_deploy_key.py b/plugins/modules/github_deploy_key.py
index b65f635801..ae90e04c91 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/github_deploy_key.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/github_deploy_key.py
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ class GithubDeployKey(object):
                 yield self.module.from_json(resp.read())
 
                 links = {}
-                for x, y in findall(r'<([^>]+)>;\s*rel="(\w+)"', info["link"]):
+                for x, y in findall(r'<([^>]+)>;\s*rel="(\w+)"', info.get("link", '')):
                     links[y] = x
 
                 url = links.get('next')