Grabs data from GitHub and pushes it to an Elasticsearch instance
- Introduction
- Quick start with Docker
- Local installation
- Configuration
- Usage
- Commands
- Develop
- Build and publish
This script has been created to easily export Data from GitHub and import it into an Elasticsearch instance.
Whenever possible (i.e. issues, milestones, projects), it loads data sorted by the updated date in descending order (most recent first) and will stop as soon as it find the same node already in Elasticsearch. This way, first load takes some time, then you can just cron it to keep your Elasticsearch instance up to date.
The overall logic is articulated around 3 stages:
- Identify repositories to load data from
- [OPTIONAL] Select which repository to load data from by editing
~/.config/github-indexer/repositories.yml
and applying the changes by runninggithub-indexer cfRepos
- or force repos to be active during initial fetch by running ghRepos with the -f flag:
github-indexer ghRepos YOUR_OPTIONS -f
- or force repos to be active during initial fetch by running ghRepos with the -f flag:
- Load data from the selected repositories (for example
github-indexer ghIssues
to load issues)
You can then re-run the scripts at regular interval to fetch the updated nodes.
Note: GitHub doesn't provide a mechanism to fetch new or updated labels so the script will (flush the index and)load all labels every time ghLabels
is executed.
You can use github-indexer docker image to get started quickly.
For example, to pull all repositories from an org:
Fetch the latest image
docker pull zencrepes/github-indexer:latest
Run
docker run -it --rm \
-e ES_NODE='https://username:[email protected]:9200' \
-e GITHUB_TOKEN='YOUR TOKEN HERE' \
zencrepes/github-indexer:latest github-indexer ghRepos -g org -o YOUR_ORG -f
Or in a shell (you can then use github-indexer commands)
docker run -it --rm \
-e ES_NODE='https://username:[email protected]:9200' \
-e GITHUB_TOKEN='YOUR TOKEN HERE' \
zencrepes/github-indexer:latest /bin/ash
You can choose to install github-indexer locally, although running docker is probably easier if you're just looking at using github-indexer.
npm install -g github-indexer
A configuration file with default settings is automatically generated in ~/.config/github-indexer/config.yml
the first time you run the indexer.
Environment variable are also available for some of the configuration settings:
- ES_NODE: Elasticsearch node (for example: https://username:password@localhost:9200)
- ES_CA: Path to the ES CA public key (for example: ./cacert.pem)
- ES_CLOUD_ID: Elastic cloud id
- ES_CLOUD_USERNAME: Elastic cloud id
- ES_CLOUD_PASSWORD: Elastic cloud password
- ES_REPO: Elasticsearch index containing the repository configuration
- GITHUB_TOKEN: GitHub token for fetching data.
- GITHUB_LOGIN: GitHub user login to fatch data from (for affiliated mode)
- GITHUB_INCREMENT: Number of nodes to fetch at a time (max 100)
Environment variable will take precedence over the corresponding settings in the configuration file.
Authentication to the Elasticsearch cluster is possible either through Basic Auth (using ES_NODE only), with SSL (using ES_NODE and ES_CA), or to an Elastic Cloud cluster (using ES_CLOUD_ID, ES_CLOUD_USERNAME and ES_CLOUD_PASSWORD).
Configuration is stored in ~/.config/github-indexer/config.yml
, it contains the following settings;
elasticsearch:
node: 'https://username:[email protected]:9200' # Eleasticsearch node
sslca: './cacert.pem' # Path the the public CA cert, or null
cloud: # Elastic Cloud credentials
id: null
username: null
password: null
indices:
repos: 'gh_repos' # Eleasticsearch index containing repository configuration
issues: 'gh_issues_' # Prefix for the Elasticsearch index containing issues, one index is created per repository, eg: gh_issues_ORG_REPO
projects: 'gh_projects_' # Prefix for the Elasticsearch index containing projects, one index is created for org-level project and one per repository, eg: gh_projects_ORG_REPO
labels: 'gh_labels_' # Prefix for the Elasticsearch index containing labels, one index is created per repository, eg: gh_labels_ORG_REPO
milestones: 'gh_milestones_' # Prefix for the Elasticsearch index containing milestones, one index is created per repository, eg: gh_milestones_ORG_REPO
prs: 'gh_prs_' # Prefix for the Elasticsearch index containing pull requests, one index is created per repository, eg: gh_prs_ORG_REPO
fetch:
max_nodes: 30 # Number of nodes to request from GitHub Graphql API (max: 100), avoid using too high of a number of large repositories
github:
token: 'TOKEN_HERE' # GitHub authorization token
login: 'YOUR_USERNAME' # GitHub authorization token
All of the configuration settings should be self-explanatory with the exception of max_nodes
, which is used to indicate how many root nodes should be fetched from GitHub graphql's API. The maximum number supported by GitHub is 100, but please note that GitHub's GraphQL API can be unstable with large repositories, it is recommended to keep that number around 30 -> 50. A smaller number triggers more smaller call, a larger number triggers less larger calls.
You also need to obtain a GitHub Token, to do so, simply visit: https://github.com/settings/tokens and generate a personal access token
. You'll need the following scope: public_repo, read:org, user
Then you simply have to replace TOKEN_HERE
with the token you just generated.
$ npm install -g github-indexer
$ github-indexer COMMAND
running command...
$ github-indexer (-v|--version|version)
github-indexer/1.0.0 darwin-x64 node-v10.16.0
$ github-indexer --help [COMMAND]
USAGE
$ github-indexer COMMAND
...
github-indexer cfRepos
github-indexer ghIssues
github-indexer ghLabels
github-indexer ghMilestones
github-indexer ghProjects
github-indexer ghPullrequests
github-indexer ghRepos
github-indexer help [COMMAND]
github-indexer init
Enable/disable repositories by reading the configuration file
USAGE
$ github-indexer cfRepos
OPTIONS
-h, --help show CLI help
--esca=esca Path to the ES CA public key (for example: ./cacert.pem)
--escloudid=escloudid Elastic cloud id
--escloudpassword=escloudpassword Elastic cloud password
--escloudusername=escloudusername Elastic cloud username
--esnode=esnode Elasticsearch node (for example: https://username:password@localhost:9200)
--esrepo=esrepo Elastic index containing the GitHub repository
--gincrement=gincrement GitHub API query increment (max nodes to fetch at a time)
--glogin=glogin GitHub user Login (for fetching user repos)
--gtoken=gtoken GitHub user Token
EXAMPLE
$ github-indexer cfRepo
See code: src/commands/cfRepos.ts
Fetch issues from GitHub
USAGE
$ github-indexer ghIssues
OPTIONS
-h, --help show CLI help
--esca=esca Path to the ES CA public key (for example: ./cacert.pem)
--escloudid=escloudid Elastic cloud id
--escloudpassword=escloudpassword Elastic cloud password
--escloudusername=escloudusername Elastic cloud username
--esnode=esnode Elasticsearch node (for example: https://username:password@localhost:9200)
--esrepo=esrepo Elastic index containing the GitHub repository
--gincrement=gincrement GitHub API query increment (max nodes to fetch at a time)
--glogin=glogin GitHub user Login (for fetching user repos)
--gtoken=gtoken GitHub user Token
EXAMPLE
$ github-indexer ghIssues
See code: src/commands/ghIssues.ts
Fetch labels from GitHub
USAGE
$ github-indexer ghLabels
OPTIONS
-h, --help show CLI help
--esca=esca Path to the ES CA public key (for example: ./cacert.pem)
--escloudid=escloudid Elastic cloud id
--escloudpassword=escloudpassword Elastic cloud password
--escloudusername=escloudusername Elastic cloud username
--esnode=esnode Elasticsearch node (for example: https://username:password@localhost:9200)
--esrepo=esrepo Elastic index containing the GitHub repository
--gincrement=gincrement GitHub API query increment (max nodes to fetch at a time)
--glogin=glogin GitHub user Login (for fetching user repos)
--gtoken=gtoken GitHub user Token
EXAMPLE
$ github-indexer ghLabels
See code: src/commands/ghLabels.ts
Fetch milestones from GitHub
USAGE
$ github-indexer ghMilestones
OPTIONS
-h, --help show CLI help
--esca=esca Path to the ES CA public key (for example: ./cacert.pem)
--escloudid=escloudid Elastic cloud id
--escloudpassword=escloudpassword Elastic cloud password
--escloudusername=escloudusername Elastic cloud username
--esnode=esnode Elasticsearch node (for example: https://username:password@localhost:9200)
--esrepo=esrepo Elastic index containing the GitHub repository
--gincrement=gincrement GitHub API query increment (max nodes to fetch at a time)
--glogin=glogin GitHub user Login (for fetching user repos)
--gtoken=gtoken GitHub user Token
EXAMPLE
$ github-indexer ghMilestones
See code: src/commands/ghMilestones.ts
Fetch projects from GitHub
USAGE
$ github-indexer ghProjects
OPTIONS
-h, --help show CLI help
--esca=esca Path to the ES CA public key (for example: ./cacert.pem)
--escloudid=escloudid Elastic cloud id
--escloudpassword=escloudpassword Elastic cloud password
--escloudusername=escloudusername Elastic cloud username
--esnode=esnode Elasticsearch node (for example: https://username:password@localhost:9200)
--esrepo=esrepo Elastic index containing the GitHub repository
--gincrement=gincrement GitHub API query increment (max nodes to fetch at a time)
--glogin=glogin GitHub user Login (for fetching user repos)
--gtoken=gtoken GitHub user Token
EXAMPLE
$ github-indexer ghIssues
See code: src/commands/ghProjects.ts
Fetch Pull Requests (PRs) from GitHub
USAGE
$ github-indexer ghPullrequests
OPTIONS
-h, --help show CLI help
--esca=esca Path to the ES CA public key (for example: ./cacert.pem)
--escloudid=escloudid Elastic cloud id
--escloudpassword=escloudpassword Elastic cloud password
--escloudusername=escloudusername Elastic cloud username
--esnode=esnode Elasticsearch node (for example: https://username:password@localhost:9200)
--esrepo=esrepo Elastic index containing the GitHub repository
--gincrement=gincrement GitHub API query increment (max nodes to fetch at a time)
--glogin=glogin GitHub user Login (for fetching user repos)
--gtoken=gtoken GitHub user Token
EXAMPLE
$ github-indexer ghPullrequests
See code: src/commands/ghPullrequests.ts
Fetch repositories from GitHub (FIRST STEP, start HERE)
USAGE
$ github-indexer ghRepos
OPTIONS
-f, --force Make all fetched repositories active by default
-g, --grab=affiliated|org|repo (required) Select how to fetch repositories
-h, --help show CLI help
-o, --org=org GitHub organization login
-r, --repo=repo GitHub repository name
--esca=esca Path to the ES CA public key (for example: ./cacert.pem)
--escloudid=escloudid Elastic cloud id
--escloudpassword=escloudpassword Elastic cloud password
--escloudusername=escloudusername Elastic cloud username
--esnode=esnode Elasticsearch node (for example: https://username:password@localhost:9200)
--esrepo=esrepo Elastic index containing the GitHub repository
--gincrement=gincrement GitHub API query increment (max nodes to fetch at a time)
--glogin=glogin GitHub user Login (for fetching user repos)
--gtoken=gtoken GitHub user Token
EXAMPLES
$ github-indexer ghRepo -g affiliated
$ github-indexer ghRepo -g org -o jetbrains
$ github-indexer ghRepo -g repo -o microsoft -r vscode
See code: src/commands/ghRepos.ts
display help for github-indexer
USAGE
$ github-indexer help [COMMAND]
ARGUMENTS
COMMAND command to show help for
OPTIONS
--all see all commands in CLI
See code: @oclif/plugin-help
Initialize the configuration file
USAGE
$ github-indexer init
OPTIONS
--esca=esca Path to the ES CA public key (for example: ./cacert.pem)
--escloudid=escloudid Elastic cloud id
--escloudpassword=escloudpassword Elastic cloud password
--escloudusername=escloudusername Elastic cloud username
--esnode=esnode Elasticsearch node (for example: https://username:password@localhost:9200)
--esrepo=esrepo Elastic index containing the GitHub repository
--gincrement=gincrement GitHub API query increment (max nodes to fetch at a time)
--glogin=glogin GitHub user Login (for fetching user repos)
--gtoken=gtoken GitHub user Token
EXAMPLE
$ github-indexer init
See code: src/commands/init.ts
git clone https://github.com/zencrepes/github-indexer.git
npm install
tsc -b
npm publish