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GitHub to Nutshell integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep GitHub and Nutshell in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect GitHub and Nutshell

Sync what happens in GitHub with the customer records in Nutshell, in real time and in both directions.

The CRM is supposed to be the record of every customer relationship, but customer-relevant information also accumulates in the other tools a team runs. Whatever GitHub holds or produces that touches a customer, whether conversations, payments, replies, enriched data, or notes, the CRM only benefits if it arrives without someone copying it over.

Stacksync connects Users, Labels and Milestones, Repositories, Issues in GitHub to Products, Tags, Users, Leads in Nutshell with bi-directional, real-time sync. Activity and record changes in GitHub update the matching contact or account in Nutshell, and CRM data flows the other way wherever GitHub can store and use it.

Common use cases

  • Create GitHub issues automatically from records written elsewhere, such as bug reports logged in a CRM case object.
  • Publish release data into customer-communication tools when a new version ships.
  • Mirror tasks and activities into ops tools for cross-team visibility.
  • Sync Nutshell leads into a warehouse or Postgres so small B2B teams can report on pipeline without exports.

Where GitHub handles support or shared inboxes

Tickets and conversations attach to the right contact and account in Nutshell, so sales sees open issues before the next call.

Where GitHub supplies contact or company data

Enriched fields land directly on records in Nutshell, and refreshes keep them from going stale.

Where GitHub can store CRM context: fields kept current

Owner, lifecycle stage, or account details from Nutshell sync into GitHub, so people working there have the context without switching tools.

What you can sync between GitHub and Nutshell

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

GitHub objects Nutshell objects
Organizations and Teams Membership data synced with identity systems and HR directories for access reviews. Tags Segmentation labels mapped to lists or filters in downstream tools
Users Author and assignee identities matched to internal directories. Users Rep records used to resolve ownership when syncing assignments
Labels and Milestones Classification fields mapped to statuses and sprints in external trackers. Leads Nutshell's deal object; synced as the pipeline record linked to people and companies
Repositories Top-level containers whose metadata and settings syncs read to scope other objects. People Individual contacts, kept consistent with marketing and outreach tools
Issues Synced two-way with project trackers and support tools, including labels and assignees. Companies Account records that group people and leads for account-level syncs
Pull Requests Review state, status checks, and merge status feed engineering dashboards and workflow tools. Activities Logged calls, meetings, and emails used for engagement reporting
What ships with GitHub ⇄ Nutshell

Connect GitHub and Nutshell for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every GitHub–Nutshell connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in GitHub or Nutshell instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever GitHub or Nutshell data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single GitHub or Nutshell record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your GitHub ⇄ Nutshell sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between GitHub and Nutshell.

How the GitHub and Nutshell connectors work

GitHub

Integration surface
REST API and GraphQL API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0, fine-grained personal access tokens, or GitHub App installation tokens
Change detection
Webhooks with a broad event catalog covering issues, pull requests, pushes, and releases; polling for backfill
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Authenticated REST requests are limited to 5,000 per hour per user; GitHub Apps scale limits per installation.

Nutshell

Integration surface
JSON-RPC API over HTTPS; a newer REST API is also offered
Authentication
HTTP Basic with account email and API key
Change detection
webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling as fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
subject to the platform's API rate limits
How it works

How to connect GitHub to Nutshell — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate GitHub and Nutshell with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    GitHub connected
    Nutshell connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the GitHub and Nutshell objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · GitHub ⇄ Nutshell
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    GitHub Nutshell
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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