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GitHub API Integrations

Build and run workflows using the GitHub API. Use 1000s of source-available triggers and actions across 2,400+ apps. Or write custom code to integrate any app or API in seconds.

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Overview

The GitHub API is a powerful gateway to interaction with GitHub's vast web of data and services, offering a suite of endpoints to manipulate and retrieve information on repositories, pull requests, issues, and more. Harnessing this API on Pipedream, you can orchestrate automated workflows that respond to events in real-time, manage repository data, streamline collaborative processes, and connect GitHub with other services for a more integrated development lifecycle.

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import { axios } from "@pipedream/platform"
export default defineComponent({
  props: {
    github: {
      type: "app",
      app: "github",
    }
  },
  async run({steps, $}) {
    return await axios($, {
      url: `https://api.github.com/user`,
      headers: {
        Authorization: `Bearer ${this.github.$auth.oauth_access_token}`,
        "X-GitHub-Api-Version": `2022-11-28`,
      },
    })
  },
})

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HTTP / Webhook
HTTP / Webhook
Get a unique URL where you can send HTTP or webhook requests
Node
Node
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Python
Python
Anything you can do in Python can be done in a Pipedream Workflow. This includes using any of the 350,000+ PyPi packages available in your Python powered workflows.
OpenAI (ChatGPT)
OpenAI (ChatGPT)
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with the mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are the makers of popular models like ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Whisper.
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Salesforce
Salesforce
Web services API for interacting with Salesforce
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HubSpot
HubSpot
HubSpot's CRM platform contains the marketing, sales, service, operations, and website-building software you need to grow your business.
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Zoho CRM
Zoho CRM
Zoho CRM is an online Sales CRM software that manages your sales, marketing, and support in one CRM platform.
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Stripe
Stripe
Stripe powers online and in-person payment processing and financial solutions for businesses of all sizes.
Shopify
Shopify
Shopify is a complete commerce platform that lets anyone start, manage, and grow a business. You can use Shopify to build an online store, manage sales, market to customers, and accept payments in digital and physical locations.
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WooCommerce
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the open-source ecommerce platform for WordPress.
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Snowflake
Snowflake
A data warehouse built for the cloud
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MongoDB
MongoDB
MongoDB is an open source NoSQL database management program.
Supabase
Supabase
Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative.
MySQL
MySQL
MySQL is an open-source relational database management system.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a free and open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance.
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AWS
AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services.
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Twilio SendGrid
Twilio SendGrid
Send marketing and transactional email through the Twilio SendGrid platform with the Email API, proprietary mail transfer agent, and infrastructure for scalable delivery.
Amazon SES
Amazon SES
Amazon SES is a cloud-based email service provider that can integrate into any application for high volume email automation
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Klaviyo
Klaviyo
Email Marketing and SMS Marketing Platform
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Zendesk
Zendesk
Zendesk is award-winning customer service software trusted by 200K+ customers. Make customers happy via text, mobile, phone, email, live chat, social media.
Notion
Notion
Notion is a new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team.
Slack
Slack
Slack is a channel-based messaging platform. With Slack, people can work together more effectively, connect all their software tools and services, and find the information they need to do their best work — all within a secure, enterprise-grade environment.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams has communities, events, chats, channels, meetings, storage, tasks, and calendars in one place.
Schedule
Schedule
Trigger workflows on an interval or cron schedule.

Example Use Cases

  • Automated Issue Management Workflow: Trigger a workflow on Pipedream when new GitHub issues are opened. Automatically label them based on content, assign to the correct team member, or prioritize by sending details to a project management tool like Trello or Jira.

  • Code Quality Control Workflow: Upon each push to a repository, use Pipedream to run the code through automated tests and linters, reporting back the status directly in the commit or pull request. Integrate with Slack to notify the development team about the code quality status or any failed checks.

  • Release Management Workflow: Automate the process of releasing new versions of software. When a new tag is pushed to GitHub, Pipedream can build the code, run tests, deploy the release to production environments, and notify stakeholders through email or a messaging app like Microsoft Teams.

Getting Started

Github Triggers: Webhooks vs. Polling

The Github triggers in Pipedream enable you to get notified immediately via a webhook if you have admin rights on the repo you're watching. Otherwise you can still poll for updates at a regular interval for any other repo where you might not have admin rights.

Example: New or Updated Issue If you are an admin on the repo, this trigger will be configured as a webhook — so any time there is a new or updated issue in the repo, an event will immediately get emitted.

If you do not have admin rights on the repo you're watching, you can configure the Pipedream trigger to poll for updates on a regular interval.

Create Issue with GitHub API on New Message (Instant) from Discord API
Discord + GitHub
 
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Send POST Request with HTTP / Webhook API on New Commit from GitHub API
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Post a Thread with Threads API on New Team from GitHub API
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List Balance History with Stripe API on New Release (Instant) from GitHub API
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Delete Call with Twilio API on New Collaborator (Instant) from GitHub API
GitHub + Twilio
 
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New Branch Created from the GitHub API

Emit new event when a branch is created.

 
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New Card in Column (Classic Projects) from the GitHub API

Emit new event when a (classic) project card is created or moved to a specific column. For Projects V2 use New Issue with Status trigger. More information here

 
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New Collaborator from the GitHub API

Emit new event when a collaborator is added

 
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New Commit from the GitHub API

Emit new event when commits are pushed to a branch

 
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New Commit Comment from the GitHub API

Emit new event when a commit comment is created

 
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Create Issue with the GitHub API

Create a new issue in a Gihub repo. See the documentation

 
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Search Issues and Pull Requests with the GitHub API

Find issues and pull requests by state and keyword. See the documentation

 
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Create Branch with the GitHub API

Create a new branch in a Github repo. See the documentation

 
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Create Gist with the GitHub API

Allows you to add a new gist with one or more files. See the documentation

 
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Create Issue Comment with the GitHub API

Create a new comment in a issue. See the documentation

 
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Authentication

Name Slug: github

GitHub uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your GitHub account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into GitHub and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any GitHub API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

repoadmin:orgadmin:public_keyadmin:org_hookgistprojectnotificationsuserwrite:discussionwrite:packagesread:packagesadmin:repo_hook
OAuth Request Configurations:
  1. authorization
    GEThttps://github.com/login/oauth/authorize?client_id={{oauth.client_id}}&state={{oauth.state}}&redirect_uri={{oauth.redirect_uri}}&response_type=code&scope={{oauth.space_separated_scopes}}&login=
  2. accessToken
    POSThttps://github.com/login/oauth/access_tokencontent-type: application/x-www-form-urlencodedaccept: application/json
    client_id={{oauth.client_id}}&client_secret={{oauth.client_secret}}&grant_type=authorization_code&code={{oauth.code}}

Trusted by 1,000,000+ developers from startups to Fortune 500 companies

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