airbyte/docs/integrations/sources/github.md

GitHub

Overview

The GitHub source supports both Full Refresh and Incremental syncs. You can choose if this connector will copy only the new or updated data, or all rows in the tables and columns you set up for replication, every time a sync is run.

Output schema

This connector outputs the following full refresh streams:

• Assignees
• Reviews
• Collaborators
• Teams
• Issue labels

This connector outputs the following incremental streams:

• Comments
• Commits
• Issues
• Commit comments
• Events
• Issue events
• Issue milestones
• Projects
• Pull requests
• Releases
• Stargazers

Notes

1. Only 3 streams from above 11 incremental streams (comments, commits and issues) are pure incremental meaning that they:

   • read only new records;
   • output only new records.

   Other 8 incremental streams are also incremental but with one difference, they:

   • read all records;
   • output only new records.

   Please, consider this behaviour when using those 8 incremental streams because it may affect you API call limits.

2. We are passing few parameters (since, sort and direction) to GitHub in order to filter records and sometimes for large streams specifying very distant start_date in the past may result in keep on getting error from GitHub instead of records (respective WARN log message will be outputted). In this case Specifying more recent start_date may help.

Features

Feature	Supported?
Full Refresh Sync	Yes
Incremental - Append Sync	Yes
Replicate Incremental Deletes	Coming soon
SSL connection	Yes
Namespaces	No

Performance considerations

The Github connector should not run into Github API limitations under normal usage. Please create an issue if you see any rate limit issues that are not automatically retried successfully.

Getting started

Requirements

• Github Account;
• access_token - Github Personal Access Token wih the necessary permissions (described below);
• start_date - start date for 3 incremental streams: comments, commits and issues;
• repository - Space-delimited list of GitHub repositories/organizations which looks like <owner>/<repo> <organization>/* <organization_new>/* <owner_new>/<repo_new>.

Note: if you want to specify the organization to receive data from all its repositories, then you should specify it according to the following pattern: <organization>/*

Setup guide

Log into Github and then generate a personal access token.

Your token should have at least the repo scope. Depending on which streams you want to sync, the user generating the token needs more permissions:

• For syncing Collaborators, the user which generates the personal access token must be a collaborator. To become a collaborator, they must be invited by an owner. If there are no collaborators, no records will be synced. Read more about access permissions here.
• Syncing Teams is only available to authenticated members of a team's organization. Personal user accounts and repositories belonging to them don't have access to Teams features. In this case no records will be synced.
• To sync the Projects stream, the repository must have the Projects feature enabled.

Changelog

Version	Date	Pull Request	Subject
0.1.6	2021-08-18	5456	Add MultipleTokenAuthenticator
0.1.5	2021-08-18	5456	Fix set up validation
0.1.4	2021-08-13	5136	Support syncing multiple repositories/organizations
0.1.3	2021-08-03	5156	Extended existing schemas with users property for certain streams
0.1.2	2021-07-13	4708	Fix bug with IssueEvents stream and add handling for rate limiting
0.1.1	2021-07-07	4590	Fix schema in the pull_request stream
0.1.0	2021-07-06	4174	New Source: GitHub