tap-github | A Singer tap for extracting data from the GitHub API

We recommend using a virtualenv:. Create a GitHub access token. Login to your GitHub account, go to the Personal Access Tokens settings page, and generate a new token with at least the repo scope. Save this access token, you'll need it for the next step. Create the config file. Create a JSON file containing the start date, access token you just created and the path to one or multiple repositories that you want to extract data from. Each repo path should be space delimited. The repo path is relative to https://github.com/. For example the path for this repository is singer-io/tap-github. You can also add request timeout to set the timeout for requests which is an optional parameter with default value of 300 seconds. Run the tap in discovery mode to get properties.json file. In the properties.json file, select the streams to sync.
Install We recommend using a virtualenv: > virtualenv -p python3 venv > source venv/bin/activate > pip install tap-github
Create a GitHub access token Login to your GitHub account, go to the Personal Access Tokens settings page, and generate a new token with at least the repo scope. Save this access token, you'll need it for the next step.
Create the config file Create a JSON file containing the start date, access token you just created and the path to one or multiple repositories that you want to extract data from. Each repo path should be space delimited. The repo path is relative to https://github.com/. For example the path for this repository is singer-io/tap-github. You can also add request timeout to set the timeout for requests which is an optional parameter with default value of 300 seconds. {"access_token": "your-access-token", "repository": "singer-io/tap-github singer-io/getting-started", "start_date": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z", "request_timeout": 300}
Run the tap in discovery mode to get properties.json file tap-github --config config.json --discover > properties.json
In the properties.json file, select the streams to sync Each stream in the properties.json file has a "schema" entry. To select a stream to sync, add "selected": true to that stream's "schema" entry. For example, to sync the pull_requests stream: ... "tap_stream_id": "pull_requests", "schema": { "selected": true, "properties": { "updated_at": { "format": "date-time", "type": [ "null", "string" ] } ...
Run the application tap-github can be run with: tap-github --config config.json --properties properties.json