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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.

Supported update methods

For more information, see Change processing.

  • Change data capture (CDC)

  • Reload and compare

  • Change data capture (CDC) using Change Tables

  • Full load

  • 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

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

Creating the connection

  1. Fill in the required connection properties.
  2. Provide a name for the connection in Connection name.

  3. Select Open connection metadata to define metadata for the connection when it has been created.

  4. Click Create.

Connection settings
Setting Description
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.

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