GitHub

GitHub is a platform and cloud-based service for software development and version control using Git. You can use GitHub as a data source when landing or replicating data.

For more information on the API, see GitHub REST API documentation.

For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Connecting to SaaS applications.
For more information about Lite connectors, see Classifications for SaaS application connectors.
Depending on your use case, you might need to install Data Movement gateway to move data from SaaS applications. For more information, see When is Data Movement gateway required?.

Supported update methods

For more information, see An overview of target update methods.

Landing tasks:

Change data capture (CDC)
Reload and compare

Replication tasks:

Change data capture (CDC) using Change Tables
Full load

Landing data in a data lake tasks:

Change data capture (CDC)
Reload

Preparing for authentication

To access your GitHub data, you need to authenticate the connection with your account credentials.

Create a GitHub personal access token and grant the following scopes:

repo
read:org
read:user
read:project.

For more information, see Managing your personal access tokens

Make sure that the account you use has read access to the tables you want to fetch.

Creating the connection

For more information, see Connecting to SaaS applications.

Fill in the required connection properties.
Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.
Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.
Click Create.

Connection settings
Setting	Description
Data gateway	Select a Data Movement gateway if required by your use case. Information note This field is not available with the Qlik Talend Cloud Starter subscription, as it does not support Data Movement gateway. If you have another subscription tier and do not want to use Data Movement gateway, select None. For information on the benefits of Data Movement gateway and use cases that require it, see Qlik Data Gateway - Data Movement.
Organization	The name of your organization in GitHub.
Personal access token	The personal access token that you generated when preparing for authentication. For more information, see Preparing for authentication.

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