How to Transfer Your GitHub Stars to an Airtable Table

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to transfer your starred GitHub repositories to an Airtable table using Anyquery. This is useful for organizing and analyzing your GitHub stars in a more structured manner.

Prerequisites

Before starting, ensure you have the following:

• A working installation of Anyquery.
• A personal access token from GitHub with the repo, user, and read:org scopes. GitHub integration guide.
• An Airtable API key and a table created to store your data. Airtable integration guide.

Step 1: Install and Configure the Plugins

First, let's install the GitHub and Airtable plugins for Anyquery.

anyquery install github
anyquery install airtable

Next, you need to configure the plugins with your GitHub token and Airtable API key.

GitHub Plugin Configuration

You'll be prompted to provide your GitHub token when installing the GitHub plugin. Create a token here if you haven't already. Ensure it has repo, user, and read:org scopes.

Airtable Plugin Configuration

You'll also be prompted to provide the Airtable API key, base ID, and table name. Here’s how to find them:

1. Airtable API key: Go to Airtable API and generate an API key.
2. Base ID: Find it in the URL of your Airtable base (e.g., https://airtable.com/appXXXXXXXXXXXXXX where appXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is your base ID).
3. Table Name: The name of the table you created in Airtable to store the data.

Ensure your Airtable table has the following columns:

• Name (Single line text)
• Owner (Single line text)
• Stars (Number)
• Description (Long text)
• URL (URL)

Step 2: Transfer GitHub Stars to Airtable

Now, let's transfer your GitHub stars to Airtable with a SQL query.

First, ensure your connections are working:

anyquery -q "SELECT * FROM github_my_stars LIMIT 1; SELECT * FROM airtable_table LIMIT 1"

If both queries return results, you are ready to transfer the data.

SQL Query to Transfer Data

anyquery -q "INSERT INTO airtable_table (Name, Owner, Stars, Description, URL) SELECT name, owner, stargazers_count, description, html_url FROM github_my_stars"

This query inserts your starred repositories into the Airtable table.

Conclusion

You have successfully transferred your GitHub stars to an Airtable table using Anyquery. Now you can organize and analyze your starred repositories in Airtable. For more information on filtering, exporting, and data manipulation, refer to the Anyquery documentation.

Happy querying!