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nodestream-plugin-github

Overview

This plugin provides a way to scrape GitHub data from the REST api and ingest them as extractors in nodestream pipelines.

Setup Neo4j

  1. Download and install Neo4j: https://neo4j.com/docs/desktop-manual/current/installation/download-installation/
  2. Create and start database (version 5.7.0: https://neo4j.com/docs/desktop-manual/current/operations/create-dbms/
  3. Install APOC: https://neo4j.com/docs/apoc/5/installation/

Create GitHub credentials

  1. Create and GitHub access codes: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.12/apps/creating-github-apps/authenticating-with-a-github-app/generating-a-user-access-token-for-a-github-app NOTE: These values will be used in your .env

Install and run the app

  1. Install python3: https://www.python.org/downloads/
  2. Install poetry: https://python-poetry.org/docs/#installation
  3. Install nodestream: https://nodestream-proj.github.io/nodestream/0.5/docs/tutorial/
  4. Generate a new nodestream project
  5. Add nodestream-github to your project dependencies in your nodestream projects pyproject.toml file.
  6. Install necessary dependencies: poetry install
  7. In nodestream.yaml add the following:
plugins:
  - name: github
    config:
      github_hostname: github.example.com
      auth_token: !env GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN
      user_agent: skip-jbristow-test
      per_page: 100
      collecting:
        all_public: True
      rate_limit_per_minute: 225
    targets:
      - my-db:
    pipelines:
      - name: github_repos
      - name: github_teams
targets:
  database: neo4j
  uri: bolt://localhost:7687
  username: neo4j
  password: neo4j123
  1. Set environment variables in your terminal session for: GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN.
  2. Verify nodestream has loaded the pipelines: poetry run nodestream show
  3. Use nodestream to run the pipelines: poetry run nodestream run <pipeline-name> --target my-db

Using make

  1. Install make (ie. brew install make)
  2. Run make run

Contributing

When contributing, make sure to sign your commits. To find out more about how to do this, refer to this GitHub documentation.

Authors

  • Jon Bristow
  • Zach Probst
  • Rohith Reddy

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