GitHub

What’s Supported

Supported Actions

This connector supports:

• Read Actions, including full historic backfill. Please note that incremental read is supported only for gists, gists/starred, issues, gists/public, repos and user/issues currently. For all other objects, a full read of the Github instance will be done per scheduled read.
• Write Actions
• Proxy Actions, using the base URL https://api.github.com

Supported Objects

The GitHub connector supports the following objects:

• advisories (Read)
• blocks (Read)
• classrooms (Read)
• codes_of_conduct (Read)
• conflicts (Read)
• deliveries (Read)
• events (Read)
• followers (Read)
• following (Read)
• gists (Read, Write)
• gists/public (Read)
• gists/starred (Read)
• installation-requests (Read)
• installation/repositories (Read)
• issues (Read)
• licenses (Read)
• marketplace_listing/plans (Read)
• marketplace_listing/stubbed/plans (Read)
• marketplace_purchases (Read)
• migration (Read)
• organizations (Read)
• orgs (Read)
• packages (Read)
• public_emails (Read)
• repos (Read)
• repositories (Read)
• repository_invitations (Read)
• secrets (Read)
• stubbed (Read)
• subscriptions (Read)
• teams (Read)
• user/codespaces (Read, Write)
• user/emails (Read, Write)
• user/keys (Read, Write)
• user/gpg_keys (Read, Write)
• user/installations (Read)
• user/issues (Read)
• user/memberships/orgs (Read)
• user/starred (Read)
• user/ssh_signing_keys (Read, Write)
• user/social_accounts (Read, Write)
• users (Read)

Before you get started

To integrate GitHub with Ampersand, you will need a GitHub Account.

Once your account is created, you’ll need to create a GitHub OAuth app and obtain the following credentials:

• OAuth Client ID
• OAuth Client Secret

You will then use these credentials to connect your application to Ampersand.

Creating a GitHub OAuth App

1. Go to GitHub Developer Settings
2. Click on “OAuth Apps” in the sidebar
3. Click “New OAuth App”
4. Fill in the application details:
   • Application name: Your application name
   • Homepage URL: Your application’s homepage URL
   • Application description: (Optional) Description of your application
   • Authorization callback URL: https://api.withampersand.com/callbacks/v1/oauth
5. Click “Register application”
6. On the next screen, click “Generate a new client secret”
7. Save your Client ID and Client Secret - you’ll need these for the next step

Add your GitHub App info to Ampersand

1. Log in to your Ampersand Dashboard
2. Select your project
3. Go to Provider apps
4. Select GitHub from the Provider list
5. Enter your OAuth app credentials:
   • Client ID
   • Client Secret
6. Click Save changes

Using the connector

To start integrating with Github:

• Create a manifest file like the example.
• Deploy it using the amp CLI.
• If you are using Read Actions, create a destination.
• Embed the InstallIntegration UI component.
• Start using the connector!
  • If your integration has Read Actions, you’ll start getting webhook messages.
  • If your integration has Write Actions, you can start making API calls to our Write API.
  • If your integration has Proxy Actions, you can start making Proxy API calls.