Sync from GitHub to S3

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Extract and load (ELT) your GitHub data into S3 in minutes with our open-source data integration connector.

Eliminate the time you spend on building and maintaining your data pipelines by integrating your data with Airbyte instead.
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Start syncing data from GitHub to S3 in three easy steps

1

Setup a GitHub connector in Airbyte

Connect to GitHub or one of 400 Airbyte data sources through simple account authentication

2

Set up S3 as the destination connector

Connect to S3 or one of 50+ Airbyte data destinations through simple account authentication

3

Sync your Data

This includes selecting the data you want to extract - streams and columns -, the sync frequency, where in S3 you want that data to be loaded.

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Ship more quickly with the only solution that fits ALL your needs.

As your tools and edge cases grow, you deserve an extensible and open ELT solution that eliminates the time you spend on building and maintaining data pipelines

Leverage the largest catalog of  connectors

Airbyte’s catalog of 300+ pre-built, no-code connectors is the largest in the industry and is doubling every year, thanks to its open-source community, while closed-source catalogs have plateaued.

Cover your custom needs with our extensibility

Build custom connectors in 10 min with our Connector Development Kit (CDK), and get them maintained by us or our community. Add them to Airbyte to enable your whole team to leverage them.
Customize ANY Airbyte connectors to address Your custom needs. Our connector’s code is open-source, so you can edit it as you see fit.

Reliability at every level

Airbyte ensure your team’s time is no longer time spent on maintenance with our reliability SLAs on our GA connectors.
Airbyte will also give you visibility and control of your data freshness at the stream level for all your connections.

It’s never been easier to integrate your GitHub data into S3

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Keep your data engineering costs in check

Building and maintaining custom connectors have become 5x easier with Airbyte. Enable your data engineering teams to focus on projects that are more valuable to your business.
Given 44% of data teams are spent on maintaining brittle in-house connectors, this is a new level of internal resources that you get back.

Get Airbyte hosted where you need it to be

Airbyte helps you deploy your pipelines in production with two deployment options for the data plane:
  • Airbyte Cloud: Have it hosted by us, with all the security you need (SOC2, ISO, GDPR, HIPAA Conduit).
  • Airbyte Enterprise: Have it hosted within your own infrastructure, so your data and secrets never leave it.

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With an average response rate of 10 minutes or less and a Customer Satisfaction score of 96/100, our team is ready to support your data integration journey all over the world.

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FAQs

What is ETL?

ETL, an acronym for Extract, Transform, Load, is a vital data integration process. It involves extracting data from diverse sources, transforming it into a usable format, and loading it into a database, data warehouse or data lake. This process enables meaningful data analysis, enhancing business intelligence.

What is GitHub?

GitHub is a renowned and respected development platform that provides code hosting services to developers for building software for both open source and private projects. It is a heavily trafficked platform where users can store and share code repositories and obtain support, advice, and help from known and unknown contributors. Three features in particular—pull request, fork, and merge—have made GitHub a powerful ally for developers and earned it a place as a (developers’) household name.

What is S3?

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud-based object storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is designed to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. S3 is highly scalable, secure, and durable, making it an ideal solution for businesses of all sizes. S3 allows users to store and retrieve data in the form of objects, which can be up to 5 terabytes in size. These objects can be accessed through a web interface or through APIs, making it easy to integrate with other AWS services or third-party applications. S3 also offers a range of features, including versioning, lifecycle policies, and access control, which allow users to manage their data effectively. It also provides high availability and durability, ensuring that data is always accessible and protected against data loss. Overall, S3 is a powerful and flexible tool that enables businesses to store and manage their data in a secure and scalable way, making it an essential component of many cloud-based applications and services.

What data can you extract from GitHub?

GitHub's API provides access to a wide range of data related to repositories, users, organizations, and more. Some of the categories of data that can be accessed through the API include:  

- Repositories: Information about repositories, including their name, description, owner, collaborators, issues, pull requests, and more.

- Users: Information about users, including their username, email address, name, location, followers, following, organizations, and more.

- Organizations: Information about organizations, including their name, description, members, repositories, teams, and more.

- Commits: Information about commits, including their SHA, author, committer, message, date, and more.

- Issues: Information about issues, including their title, description, labels, assignees, comments, and more.

- Pull requests: Information about pull requests, including their title, description, status, reviewers, comments, and more.

- Events: Information about events, including their type, actor, repository, date, and more.  

Overall, the GitHub API provides a wealth of data that can be used to build powerful applications and tools for developers, businesses, and individuals.

How do I transfer data from GitHub to S3?

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps: 
1. Set up GitHub as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
2. Set up S3 as a destination connector
3. Define which data you want to transfer and how frequently
You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud. 

What are top ETL tools to extract data from

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data from GitHub to S3 include:
- Airbyte
- Fivetran
- StitchData
- Matillion
- Talend Data Integration
These tools help in extracting data from GitHub and various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into S3 and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.

What is ELT?

ELT, standing for Extract, Load, Transform, is a modern take on the traditional ETL data integration process. In ELT, data is first extracted from various sources, loaded directly into a data warehouse, and then transformed. This approach enhances data processing speed, analytical flexibility and autonomy.

Difference between ETL and ELT?

ETL and ELT are critical data integration strategies with key differences. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) transforms data before loading, ideal for structured data. In contrast, ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) loads data before transformation, perfect for processing large, diverse data sets in modern data warehouses. ELT is becoming the new standard as it offers a lot more flexibility and autonomy to data analysts.

GitHub to S3 in minutes.

ETL your GitHub data into S3, in minutes, for free, with our open-source data integration connectors. In the format you need with post-load transformation.

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Select the GitHub data that you want to replicate.

The GitHub source connector can be used to sync the following tables:

Assignees
Includes List assignees, available assignees, owner, repo, per_page, and more.
Reviews
Includes repos, owner, pull_number, reviews, and more.
Collaborators
Collaborators
Teams
Includes accept, org, name, description, maintainers, repo_names, privacy, parent_team_id, and more.
Issue labels
Including issue assignees, comments, labels, and milestones.

About GitHub

GitHub is a renowned and respected development platform that provides code hosting services to developers for building software for both open source and private projects. It is a heavily trafficked platform where users can store and share code repositories and obtain support, advice, and help from known and unknown contributors. Three features in particular—pull request, fork, and merge—have made GitHub a powerful ally for developers and earned it a place as a (developers’) household name.

Start analyzing your GitHub data in minutes with the right data transformation

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Full control over the data

You select the data you want to replicate, and this for each destination you want to replicate your

GitHub

data to.

Normalized schemas

You can opt for getting the raw data, or to explode all nested API objects in separate tables.

Custom transformation via dbt

You can add any dbt transformation model you want and even sequence them in the order you need, so you get the data in the exact format you need at your cloud data warehouse, lake or data base.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your S3 needs

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Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates to

S3

.

play
Replicate Salesforce data to Snowflake with incremental

Manual full refresh

Easily re-sync all your data when

S3

has been desynchronized from the data source.

Change Data Capture for databases

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About S3

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud-based object storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is designed to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. S3 is highly scalable, secure, and durable, making it an ideal solution for businesses of all sizes. S3 allows users to store and retrieve data in the form of objects, which can be up to 5 terabytes in size. These objects can be accessed through a web interface or through APIs, making it easy to integrate with other AWS services or third-party applications. S3 also offers a range of features, including versioning, lifecycle policies, and access control, which allow users to manage their data effectively. It also provides high availability and durability, ensuring that data is always accessible and protected against data loss. Overall, S3 is a powerful and flexible tool that enables businesses to store and manage their data in a secure and scalable way, making it an essential component of many cloud-based applications and services.

Why Choose Airbyte for your GitHub and S3 data integration

Airbyte is the new open-source ETL platform, and enables you to replicate your

GitHub

data in the destination of your choice, in minutes.

Maintenance-free

Heading

connector

Just authenticate your GitHub account and destination, and your new GitHub data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

Extensible as open-sourced

With Airbyte, you can easily adapt the open-source GitHub ETL connector to your exact needs. All connectors are open-sourced.

No more security compliance issues​

Use Airbyte’s open-source edition to test your data pipeline without going through 3rd-party services. This will make your security team happy.

Normalized schemas​

Engineers can opt for raw data, analysts for normalized schemas. Airbyte offers several options that you can leverage with dbt.

Orchestration & scheduling​

Airbyte integrates with your existing stack. It can run with Airflow & Kubernetes and more are coming.

Monitoring & alerts on your terms​

Delays happen. We log everything and let you know when issues arise. Use our webhook to get notifications the way you want.

GitHub To S3 in minutes

ETL your GitHub data into S3, in minutes, for free, with our open-source data integration connectors. In the format you need with post-load transformation.

We don't support the
GitHub
connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
We don't support the
S3
connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
We don't support the
GitHub
and
S3
connectors yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize them, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your GitHub database needs.

Full control over the data

The 

GitHub

 source does not alter the schema present in your database. Depending on the destination connected to this source, however, the schema may be altered.

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Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates.

Log-based incremental replication

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About GitHub

GitHub is a renowned and respected development platform that provides code hosting services to developers for building software for both open source and private projects. It is a heavily trafficked platform where users can store and share code repositories and obtain support, advice, and help from known and unknown contributors. Three features in particular—pull request, fork, and merge—have made GitHub a powerful ally for developers and earned it a place as a (developers’) household name.

Start analyzing your GitHub data in minutes with the right data transformation

airbyte data transformation screenshot

Full control over the data

You select the data you want to replicate, and this for each destination you want to replicate your GitHub data to.

Normalized schemas

You can opt for getting the raw data, or to explode all nested API objects in separate tables.

Custom transformation via dbt

You can add any dbt transformation model you want and even sequence them in the order you need, so you get the data in the exact format you need at your cloud data warehouse, lake or data base.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your S3 needs

calendar icon

Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates to S3.

play
Replicate Salesforce data to Snowflake with incremental

Manual full refresh

Easily re-sync all your data when S3 has been desynchronized from the data source.

Change Data Capture for databases

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About S3

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud-based object storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is designed to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. S3 is highly scalable, secure, and durable, making it an ideal solution for businesses of all sizes. S3 allows users to store and retrieve data in the form of objects, which can be up to 5 terabytes in size. These objects can be accessed through a web interface or through APIs, making it easy to integrate with other AWS services or third-party applications. S3 also offers a range of features, including versioning, lifecycle policies, and access control, which allow users to manage their data effectively. It also provides high availability and durability, ensuring that data is always accessible and protected against data loss. Overall, S3 is a powerful and flexible tool that enables businesses to store and manage their data in a secure and scalable way, making it an essential component of many cloud-based applications and services.

Why choose Airbyte for your GitHub and S3 data integration.

Airbyte is the new open-source ETL platform, and enables you to replicate your GitHub data in the destination of your choice, in minutes.

Maintenance-free

Heading

connector

Just authenticate your

GitHub

account and destination, and your new

GitHub

data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

Extensible as open-sourced

With Airbyte, you can easily adapt the open-source

GitHub

ETL connector to your exact needs. All connectors are open-sourced.

No more security compliance issues​

Use Airbyte’s open-source edition to test your data pipeline without going through 3rd-party services. This will make your security team happy.

Normalized schemas​

Engineers can opt for raw data, analysts for normalized schemas. Airbyte offers several options that you can leverage with dbt.

Orchestration & scheduling​

Airbyte integrates with your existing stack. It can run with Airflow & Kubernetes and more are coming.

Monitoring & alerts on your terms​

Delays happen. We log everything and let you know when issues arise. Use our webhook to get notifications the way you want.