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.
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For more information about connecting to SaaS applications, see Connecting to SaaS applications.
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Data Gateway - Data Movement must be installed to land or replicate data from SaaS applications. For more information, see Qlik Data Gateway - Data Movement.
Supported update methods
For more information, see Change processing.
Landing tasks:
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Change data capture (CDC)
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Reload and compare
Replication tasks:
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Change data capture (CDC) using Change Tables
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Full load
Landing data in a data lake tasks:
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Change data capture (CDC)
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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:
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repo
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read:org
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read:user
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read:project.
For more information, see Managing your personal access tokens
Creating the connection
- Fill in the required connection properties.
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Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.
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Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.
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Click Create.
Setting | Description |
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Data gateway |
Select a Data Movement gateway to use when replicating data. |
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. |