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Github Data (Independent Publisher) (Preview)

To use the files on your github repo as a datasource, for example if your website is hosted on github. Not to be confused with the other Github connector that focuses on the PR's.

This connector is available in the following products and regions:

Service Class Regions
Copilot Studio Premium All Power Automate regions except the following:
     -   US Government (GCC)
     -   US Government (GCC High)
     -   China Cloud operated by 21Vianet
     -   US Department of Defense (DoD)
Logic Apps Standard All Logic Apps regions except the following:
     -   Azure Government regions
     -   Azure China regions
     -   US Department of Defense (DoD)
Power Apps Premium All Power Apps regions except the following:
     -   US Government (GCC)
     -   US Government (GCC High)
     -   China Cloud operated by 21Vianet
     -   US Department of Defense (DoD)
Power Automate Premium All Power Automate regions except the following:
     -   US Government (GCC)
     -   US Government (GCC High)
     -   China Cloud operated by 21Vianet
     -   US Department of Defense (DoD)
Contact
Name Nathalie Leenders
URL https://www.nathalieleenders.com
Email info@nathalieleenders.com
Connector Metadata
Publisher Nathalie-Leenders
Website https://www.nathalieleenders.com
Privacy policy https://www.nathalieleenders.com
Publisher Nathalie Leenders
Categories IT Operations

GitHub as a datasource

This connector allows you to grab a raw MD file from your GitHub repo, and pull it in as data to then be manipulated based on your markdown format.

Publisher: Nathalie Leenders | Wortell

Prerequisites

You will need the following to proceed:

  • A Microsoft PowerApps or Microsoft Flow plan with custom connector feature
  • A premium license

Supported Operations

The connector supports the following operations:

  • RetrieveData: Retrieves data from a raw MD file in your GitHub repository.

Deployment instructions

  1. Navigate to the Power Apps Custom Connectors page
  2. Click on New custom connector and select Import an OpenAPI file
  3. Browse to the location of the apiDefinition.swagger.json and apiProperties.json files
  4. Click Continue
  5. Update the general information and security details on the following page
  6. Click Create connector
  7. Use the new connector in your Power Apps application

Usage

There are 5 parameters built in:

  1. GitHub name
  2. Repo name
  3. Folder name
  4. Folder2 name
  5. Markdownfile name
  • GitHub name is your user account for GitHub, or from the account you're trying to pull data from.
  • Repo name is the name of your repo.
  • Foldername is the name of the first folder
  • Foldername2 is the underlying folders. If there are more than 1 use foldername/foldername2/foldername3 in this parameter if needed.
  • Take note, it is open source so it doesn't need any authentication on GitHub.

Known issues and limitations

  • The connector is currently in preview and may have some limitations.

Throttling Limits

Name Calls Renewal Period
API calls per connection 100 60 seconds

Actions

Get file

To use the files on your github repo as a datasource, for example if your website is hosted on github. Not to be confused with the other Github connector that focuses on the PR's.

Get file

Operation ID:
RetrieveData

To use the files on your github repo as a datasource, for example if your website is hosted on github. Not to be confused with the other Github connector that focuses on the PR's.

Parameters

Name Key Required Type Description
Github name
 Githubname True string

The name of the Github user
Repository name
 Reponame True string

The name of the Github repository
File with path
 Filewithpath True string

The path to the file in the repository, including the file name

Returns

response
string

Definitions

string

This is the basic data type 'string'.