GitHub Stars ⭐ to PostHog 🦔 via Hookdeck 🪝

A TypeScript application that sets up GitHub stars webhooks and sends them via Hookdeck. Hookdeck transforms the webhook payload into a PostHog capture event payload and sends the data to the PostHog API.

Requirements

• Node.js >= 20.6.0 (for native TypeScript support)

Setup

1. Clone this repository
2. Install dependencies:

   npm install
   

3. Create a .env file based on the .env.example template and fill in your credentials:
   • GITHUB_TOKEN: Your GitHub personal access token
   • GITHUB_WEBHOOK_SECRET: A secret key for GitHub webhook security
   • POSTHOG_HOST: Your PostHog API host. For the US this is https://us.i.posthog.com
   • POSTHOG_API_KEY: Your PostHog API key
   • HOOKDECK_API_KEY: Your Hookdeck API key
   • REPO_OWNER: Owner of the repository to track
   • REPO_NAME: Name of the repository to track

Usage

Run the application directly with Node.js native TypeScript support:

npm run start

Screenshots

Event in Hookdeck

Event in PostHog

License

MIT