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Otso

Import from GitHub

Track your commits, issues, and stars.

Token and permissions

Section titled “Token and permissions”

Create a personal access token with repo and read:user scopes and store it in GITHUB_TOKEN.

Fetch events

Section titled “Fetch events”
Terminal window
otso import github <username>

The importer walks the Events API and upserts each action.

Mapping

Section titled “Mapping”
  • Push and merge events → entry with commit URLs.
  • Issues and PRs → entry with labels mapped to tags.
  • Stars → bookmark events.

Rate limits

Section titled “Rate limits”

GitHub allows 5k requests/hour. The importer sleeps and resumes when limits are reached.