The GitHub provider for StackQL is now generally available. This can be used to query resources in GitHub Cloud or GitHub Enterprise, including orgs, teams, users, repositories, branches, pull requests, issues, workflows/actions and much more!
See available providers
You can see the versions of GitHub Provider (and other providers) available using:
stackql registry list
or from the StackQL Command Shell (stackql shell) using:
REGISTRY LIST;
this would return a list of all the providers that are currently available, for example:
+----------+---------+
| provider | version |
+----------+---------+
| github | v0.1.0 |
| google | v0.1.0 |
| okta | v0.1.0 |
+----------+---------+
Pull the github provider
To pull v0.1.0 of the github provider use:
stackql registry pull github v0.1.0
or
REGSITRY PULL github v0.1.0;
to see what providers are installed use:
SHOW PROVIDERS;
this would return something like...
+--------+
| name |
+--------+
| github |
+--------+
Explore the github provider and query public resources
The provider and public objects can be queried without authentication as shown here:
AUTH='{"github": { "type": "null_auth" }}'
stackql shell --auth="${AUTH}"
you can now enumerate services, resources, attributes and methods in the github provider using the SHOW and DESCRIBE meta commands, for instance:
show services in github from either the StackQL command shell or via stackql exec would return something like...
+----------------------------+---------------------+------------------------------------------+
| id | name | title |
+----------------------------+---------------------+------------------------------------------+
| actions_enterprises:v0.1.0 | actions_enterprises | GitHub v3 REST API - actions_enterprises |
| billing:v0.1.0 | billing | GitHub v3 REST API - billing |
| repos:v0.1.0 | repos | GitHub v3 REST API - repos |
| ... | ... | ... |
+----------------------------+---------------------+------------------------------------------+
Use the EXTENDED operator with the SHOW or DESCRIBE commands to get additional information about services, resources, attributes and methods, e.g. DESCRIBE EXTENDED github.repos.repos
show resources in github.repos would return something like...
+--------------+---------------------------+
| name | id |
+--------------+---------------------------+
| branches | github.repos.branches |
| commits | github.repos.commits |
| deployments | github.repos.deployments |
| environments | github.repos.environments |
| forks | github.repos.forks |
| releases | github.repos.releases |
| repos | github.repos.repos |
| statistics | github.repos.statistics |
| statuses | github.repos.statuses |
| traffic | github.repos.traffic |
| ... | ... |
+--------------+---------------------------+
to see fields in a resource (which can be queried or updated) use DESCRIBE for example DESCRIBE github.repos.commits would return something like...
+--------------+--------+
| name | type |
+--------------+--------+
| files | array |
| stats | object |
| commit | object |
| url | string |
| html_url | string |
| parents | array |
| node_id | string |
| comments_url | string |
| committer | object |
| sha | string |
| author | object |
+--------------+--------+
to see methods available in a resource use the SHOW METHODS command for example SHOW METHODS IN github.repos.commits would return something like...
+-------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
| MethodName | RequiredParams |
+-------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
| compare_commits | basehead, owner, repo |
| get_commit | owner, ref, repo |
| list_branches_for_head_commit | commit_sha, owner, repo |
| list_commits | owner, repo |
| list_pull_requests_associated_with_commit | commit_sha, owner, repo |
+-------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
Methods beginning with list or get can usually be accessed via SELECT statements. For example,
SELECT github.repos.commits.sha
FROM github.repos.commits
WHERE owner='${owner}' AND repo='${repo}';
Other methods can be accessed using the EXEC command (for more information see EXEC)
Query protected resources
Accessing protected resources requires authentication using a Personal Access token as shown here:
export GITHUB_CREDS=$(echo -n 'yourgithubusername:ghp_YOURPERSONALACCESSTOKEN' | base64)
AUTH='{ "github": { "type": "basic", "credentialsenvvar": "GITHUB_CREDS" } }'
stackql shell --auth="${AUTH}"
Now you are able to access protected resources, for example:
select id, name, private
from github.repos_orgs.repos_orgs
where org = 'stackql';
which would return something like...
+-----------+-------------------------+---------+
| id | name | private |
+-----------+-------------------------+---------+
| 443987542 | stackql | false |
| 441087132 | stackqlproviderregistry | false |
| 409393414 | fullstackchronicles.io | false |
| 435085734 | stackql.io | true |
| 443979486 | releases.stackql.io | true |
| 447890554 | stackqldevel | true |
| ... | ... | ... |
+-----------+-------------------------+---------+
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