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GitHub to Neo4j integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep GitHub and Neo4j 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 Neo4j

Mirror GitHub's data into Neo4j so your own code can read and write it like any other table, with changes flowing both ways in seconds.

Engineers integrate with tools like GitHub through APIs, which means auth, pagination, rate limits, webhooks, and retry logic, all maintained forever and all different for every tool. Meanwhile the data would be trivial to use if it simply lived in Neo4j.

Stacksync mirrors Repositories, Issues, Pull Requests, Commits from GitHub into Nodes, Relationships, Properties, Labels in Neo4j and keeps both sides in sync in real time. Your services query the database directly, and inserts or updates your code makes flow back into GitHub, so the tool and the database never disagree.

Common use cases

  • Mirror repository, PR, and workflow-run data into a Postgres database for engineering-metrics reporting.
  • Sync organization and team membership with an identity or HR system to automate access reviews and offboarding.
  • Write computed relationship scores (fraud, influence, similarity) back to operational systems.
  • Keep a customer-360 graph continuously updated from ERP, CRM, and support sources.

Automate GitHub from your codebase

Write to the synced tables in Neo4j and Stacksync propagates the change into GitHub, replacing custom integration code.

React to changes as they happen

Updates in GitHub arrive as row changes in Neo4j, so triggers, jobs, and services can respond in near real time.

One integration pattern for the whole stack

Every synced tool looks the same from the database, so each new integration is configuration, not a new codebase.

What you can sync between GitHub and Neo4j

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 Neo4j objects
Commits Read-only history used to link code activity to tickets and releases. Databases Named databases in a single instance that scope multi-tenant or multi-domain syncs.
Releases Tagged versions synced into changelogs, CRMs, or customer-notification systems. Users & Roles Security principals controlling what an integration credential can query or modify.
Workflow runs (Actions) CI results synced into incident and reporting systems. Nodes Entity records (customers, products, accounts) written from source systems as labeled nodes.
Organizations and Teams Membership data synced with identity systems and HR directories for access reviews. Relationships Typed, directed edges that carry the connections syncs exist to model.
Users Author and assignee identities matched to internal directories. Properties Key-value attributes on both nodes and relationships, mapped from source fields.
Labels and Milestones Classification fields mapped to statuses and sprints in external trackers. Labels Node type markers used to map source tables or objects onto the graph.
What ships with GitHub ⇄ Neo4j

Connect GitHub and Neo4j for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every GitHub–Neo4j connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in GitHub or Neo4j instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever GitHub or Neo4j 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 Neo4j record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your GitHub ⇄ Neo4j 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 Neo4j.

How the GitHub and Neo4j 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.

Neo4j

Integration surface
Bolt binary protocol with Cypher via official drivers, plus an HTTP query API
Authentication
Username/password (basic auth); enterprise deployments add SSO options
Change detection
Neo4j Change Data Capture on Enterprise and Aura streams graph changes; otherwise Cypher polling on timestamp properties
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
How it works

How to connect GitHub to Neo4j — 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 Neo4j 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
    Neo4j connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the GitHub and Neo4j 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 ⇄ Neo4j
    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 Neo4j
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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SECURITY

Security teams love Stacksync

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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