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GitHub-singer-io/tap-github: A Singer tap for extracting data from the GitHub API

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tap-github

This is a

Singer

tap that produces JSON-formatted data from the GitHub API following the

Singer spec

.

This tap:

  • Pulls raw data from the

    GitHub REST API

  • Extracts the following resources from GitHub for a single repository:
    • Assignees

    • Collaborators

    • Commits

    • Commit Comments

    • Events

    • Issues

    • Issue Events

    • Issue Milestones

    • Projects

    • Project Cards

    • Project Columns

    • Pull Requests

    • PR Commits

    • Releases

    • Comments

    • Reviews

    • Review Comments

    • Stargazers

    • Teams

    • Team Members

    • Team Memberships

  • Outputs the schema for each resource
  • Incrementally pulls data based on the input state

Quick start

  1. Install

    We recommend using a virtualenv:

    > virtualenv -p python3 venv > source venv/bin/activate > pip install tap-github
  2. Create a GitHub access token

    Login to your GitHub account, go to the

    Personal Access Tokens

    settings page, and generate a new token with at least the repo scope. Save this access token, you’ll need it for the next step.

  3. Create the config file

    Create a JSON file containing the start date, access token you just created and the path to one or multiple repositories that you want to extract data from. Each repo path should be space delimited. The repo path is relative to https://github.com/. For example the path for this repository is singer-io/tap-github. You can also add request timeout to set the timeout for requests which is an optional parameter with default value of 300 seconds.

    {"access_token": "your-access-token", "repository": "singer-io/tap-github singer-io/getting-started", "start_date": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z", "request_timeout": 300}
  4. Run the tap in discovery mode to get properties.json file

    tap-github --config config.json --discover > properties.json
  5. In the properties.json file, select the streams to sync

    Each stream in the properties.json file has a “schema” entry. To select a stream to sync, add "selected": true to that stream’s “schema” entry. For example, to sync the pull_requests stream:

    ... "tap_stream_id": "pull_requests", "schema": { "selected": true, "properties": { "updated_at": { "format": "date-time", "type": [ "null", "string" ] } ... 
  6. Run the application

    tap-github can be run with:

    tap-github --config config.json --properties properties.json

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