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tap-github (airbyte variant)🥈

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The tap-github extractor pulls data from GitHub that can then be sent to a destination using a loader.

Airbyte Usage Notice

This connector uses tap-airbyte-wrapper to call the underlying Airbyte source Docker container. This means you must have Docker installed and running prior to usage. We also recommend using Meltano version 2.13.0 or later.

Container-based connectors can introduce deployment challenges including the potential need to run Docker-in-Docker (not currently supported by services like AWS ECS, Meltano Cloud, etc. see FAQ and Airbyte's ECS deployment docs for more details). Before using this variant we recommend considering if/how you will be able to deploy container-based connectors to production.

For more context on how this Airbyte integration works please checkout out the FAQ in the Meltano Docs.

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

If you haven't already, follow the initial steps of the Getting Started guide:

  1. Install Meltano
  2. Create your Meltano project

Installation and configuration

  1. Add the tap-github extractor to your project using
    meltano add
    :
  2. meltano add extractor tap-github --variant airbyte
  3. Configure the tap-github settings using
    meltano config
    :
  4. meltano config tap-github set --interactive
  5. Test that extractor settings are valid using
    meltano config
    :
  6. meltano config tap-github test

Next steps

If you run into any issues, learn how to get help.

Capabilities

The current capabilities for tap-github may have been automatically set when originally added to the Hub. Please review the capabilities when using this extractor. If you find they are out of date, please consider updating them by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the capabilities for this extractor.

This plugin has the following capabilities:

  • about
  • catalog
  • discover
  • schema-flattening
  • state
  • stream-maps

You can override these capabilities or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the capabilities key.

Settings

The tap-github settings that are known to Meltano are documented below. To quickly find the setting you're looking for, click on any setting name from the list:

You can also list these settings using

meltano config
with the list subcommand:

meltano config tap-github list

You can override these settings or specify additional ones in your meltano.yml by adding the settings key.

Please consider adding any settings you have defined locally to this definition on MeltanoHub by making a pull request to the YAML file that defines the settings for this plugin.

Airbyte Config Branch (airbyte_config.branch)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_BRANCH

Space-delimited list of GitHub repository branches to pull commits for, e.g. airbytehq/airbyte/master. If no branches are specified for a repository, the default branch will be pulled.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set airbyte_config branch [value]

Airbyte Config Credentials Access Token (airbyte_config.credentials.access_token)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_CREDENTIALS_ACCESS_TOKEN

OAuth access token


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set airbyte_config credentials.access_token [value]

Airbyte Config Credentials Option Title (airbyte_config.credentials.option_title)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_CREDENTIALS_OPTION_TITLE

OAuth Credentials, PAT Credentials


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set airbyte_config credentials.option_title [value]

Airbyte Config Credentials Personal Access Token (airbyte_config.credentials.personal_access_token)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_CREDENTIALS_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN

Log into GitHub and then generate a personal access token. To load balance your API quota consumption across multiple API tokens, input multiple tokens separated with ","


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set airbyte_config credentials.personal_access_token [value]

Airbyte Config Page Size For Large Streams (airbyte_config.page_size_for_large_streams)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_FOR_LARGE_STREAMS

The Github connector contains several streams with a large amount of data. The page size of such streams depends on the size of your repository. We recommended that you specify values between 10 and 30.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set airbyte_config page_size_for_large_streams [value]

Airbyte Config Repository (airbyte_config.repository)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_REPOSITORY

Space-delimited list of GitHub organizations/repositories, e.g. airbytehq/airbyte for single repository, airbytehq/* for get all repositories from organization and airbytehq/airbyte airbytehq/another-repo for multiple repositories.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set airbyte_config repository [value]

Airbyte Config Start Date (airbyte_config.start_date)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_AIRBYTE_CONFIG_START_DATE

The date from which you'd like to replicate data from GitHub in the format YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00Z. For the streams which support this configuration, only data generated on or after the start date will be replicated. This field doesn't apply to all streams, see the docs for more info


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set airbyte_config start_date [value]

Airbyte Spec Image (airbyte_spec.image)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_AIRBYTE_SPEC_IMAGE
  • Default Value: airbyte/source-github

Airbyte image to run


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set airbyte_spec image [value]

Airbyte Spec Tag (airbyte_spec.tag)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_AIRBYTE_SPEC_TAG
  • Default Value: latest

Airbyte image tag


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set airbyte_spec tag [value]

Docker Mounts (docker_mounts)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_DOCKER_MOUNTS

Docker mounts to make available to the Airbyte container. Expects a list of maps containing source, target, and type as is documented in the docker --mount documentation


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set docker_mounts [value]
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Flattening Enabled (flattening_enabled)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_FLATTENING_ENABLED

'True' to enable schema flattening and automatically expand nested properties.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set flattening_enabled [value]

Flattening Max Depth (flattening_max_depth)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_FLATTENING_MAX_DEPTH

The max depth to flatten schemas.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set flattening_max_depth [value]

Stream Map Config (stream_map_config)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_STREAM_MAP_CONFIG

User-defined config values to be used within map expressions.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set stream_map_config [value]

Stream Maps (stream_maps)

  • Environment variable: TAP_GITHUB_STREAM_MAPS

Config object for stream maps capability. For more information check out Stream Maps.


Configure this setting directly using the following Meltano command:

meltano config tap-github set stream_maps [value]

Something missing?

This page is generated from a YAML file that you can contribute changes to.

Edit it on GitHub!

Looking for help?

If you're having trouble getting the tap-github extractor to work, read the Airbyte connector FAQ, look for an existing issue in the Airbyte repository, file a new issue, or join the Meltano Slack community and ask for help in the
#plugins-general
channel.

Install

meltano add extractor tap-github --variant airbyte

Maintenance Status

  • Maintenance Status
  • Built with the Meltano SDK
  • Based on an Airbyte Connector

Repo

https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/tree/master/airbyte-integrations/connectors/source-github
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Maintainer

  • Airbyte

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