GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.

ingestr supports GitHub as a source.

URI format

The URI format for GitHub is as follows:

github://?access_token=<access_token>&owner=<owner>&repo=<repo>

URI parameters:

• access_token (optional): Access Token used for authentication with the GitHub API
• owner (required): Refers to the owner of the repository
• repo (required): Refers to the name of the repository

Setting up a GitHub Integration

GitHub requires a few steps to set up an integration, please follow the guide dltHub has built here.

Once you complete the guide, you should have an access token. Let's say your access token is ghp_test_1234, the owner is max, and the name of the repository is test_example. Here is a sample command that will copy the data from GitHub into a DuckDB database:

ingestr ingest --source-uri 'github://?access_token=ghp_test_1234&owner=max&repo=test_example' --source-table 'issues' --dest-uri duckdb:///github.duckdb --dest-table 'dest.issues'

This is a sample command that will copy the data from the GitHub source to DuckDB.

Tables

GitHub source allows ingesting the following sources into separate tables:

Table	PK	Inc Key	Inc Strategy	Details
issues	-	–	replace	Retrieves GitHub issues along with their comments and reactions. Full reload on each run.
pull_requests	-	–	replace	Retrieves pull requests with comments and reactions. Full reload on each run.
repo_events	id	created_at	merge	Retrieves recent repository events. Appends only new events using created_at filter. Only events from the past 30 days allowed.
stargazers	-	–	replace	Retrieves stargazers. Full reload on each run.

Use these as --source-table parameter in the ingestr ingest command.