Automating your Workflow with Probot

An Introduction to automation and GitHub Apps, with a focus on building on Probot (probot.github.io).

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1. Automating your Workflow with Probot Bex Warner @GitHub
2. • Automation • Automating GitHub • What is Probot • Existing Probot Apps • Building a Probot App
3. Automating Process
4. Identify repeated tasks “We {action} every {period of time}.”
5. Identify repeated tasks “We release a changelog every two weeks.”
6. Giphy.com
7. What does automation look like on GitHub?
8. OAuth Apps
11. github.com/dear-github/dear-github
12. GitHub Apps
13. Granular permissions
16. You’ve probably seen it in action
17. You’ve probably seen it in action
18. You’ve probably seen it in action
19. So we understand GitHub and Automation…
20. Giphy.com
21. probot.github.io
22. Listen on Webhooks Take action via the GitHub API
23. Authentication JWT + installation access token
24. GitHub APIs REST, GraphQl, Octokits
25. Authenticated Octokit client
26. Existing Apps
27. probot.github.io/apps
28. Stale >49k public issues ~850 organizations Close stale Issues and Pull Requests
29. Reminders >200 organizations Set reminders on Issues and Pull Requests
30. Welcome > 3600 public issues + PRs >180 organizations Welcomes new users
31. WIP >550 organizations Blocks Pull Requests with WIP in the title
32. Let’s get started
33. probot.github.io
34. github.com/probot/create-probot-app https://carbon.now.sh/
35. Scaffolding
36. Webhook Delivery ngrok, localtunnel
38. My custom smee URL
39. smee.io/my-custom-url event stream
40. Creating a GitHub App
41. Download a private key
42. updating your .env https://carbon.now.sh/
43. Let’s write some code
44. index.js https://carbon.now.sh/
45. Identify repeated tasks “We {action} every {period of time}.”
46. Identify repeated tasks “We add a label for every every new issue.”
47. `app.on` listening for webhooks https://carbon.now.sh/
48. Listening on `issues.opened` https://carbon.now.sh/
49. https://octokit.github.io/rest.js/#api-Issues-addLabels
50. Add necessary params https://carbon.now.sh/
51. Make the API call https://carbon.now.sh/
52. Watch it work!
53. What other things can I do with GitHub Apps?
54. Checks API https://blog.github.com/2018-05-07-introducing- checks-api/
55. https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-05-07-new-checks-api-public-beta/
56. https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-05-07-new-checks-api-public-beta/
57. https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-05-07-new-checks-api-public-beta/
58. https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-05-23-request-actions-on-checks/
59. https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-05-23-request-actions-on-checks/
60. GitHub Developer Program
61. We’re hiring! https://github.com/about/careers
62. probot.github.io developer@github.com @hiimbex @hiimbexo Bex Warner GitHub