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Connect GitHub to Notion

Notion is where many teams plan, write docs and collect requests, while GitHub is where the code ships. Connecting them turns approved ideas into issues, puts new issues on your planning board, keeps docs in step with releases and prepares meeting briefings from both.
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Ideas

What you can do with GitHub and Notion

Issue boards, feature requests, briefings, documentation checks and backups, between GitHub and Notion. These are ready-made starting points. Anything else you can describe works too.
On a scheduleAI

Back up workflows to GitHub and document them in Notion

Each week your workflow definitions are saved to GitHub, and every changed workflow gets a plain-language description in your Notion database.

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On a scheduleAI

Get a pre-meeting briefing from GitHub and Notion

Before each engineering meeting, Slack gets a short briefing with recent pull requests and issues and the latest notes from your Notion meeting page.

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Every 15 minutes

Turn approved Notion feature requests into GitHub issues

When a feature request in Notion is marked Approved, a GitHub issue is opened and its link is written back to the Notion page.

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The moment it happensAI

Add new GitHub issues to a Notion board with AI triage

Every new GitHub issue appears on your Notion board with a type and priority already set, and a link back to GitHub.

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On a schedule

Flag Notion docs that are older than your latest release

When a new release ships on GitHub, Slack lists the Notion docs pages for that product that have not been updated since before the release.

See how it works Your own logic

Any other automation you can describe in words

Your own rules, schedule and AI steps with GitHub and Notion, plus any other app. Describe it and your assistant builds it.

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Build your own

Build any GitHub and Notion automation you can describe

The ideas above are ready-made starting points, not a fixed list. Describe what should happen between GitHub and Notion in your own words, with your conditions, other apps or an AI step, and your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

For example, ask your assistant

When a pull request labeled architecture is merged, have AI summarize the description and discussion into a Notion page in our Decisions database.

When a Notion roadmap item's Status changes to Building, create a GitHub issue for it and store the issue URL in the page's GitHub property, unless one is already set.

Use cases

Why people connect GitHub and Notion

How the two apps work together

  • GitHub webhooks send issue, pull request and release events to a ClickRuntime trigger link.
  • The script creates or updates pages in a Notion database, setting properties such as status, assignee and GitHub URL.
  • For Notion to GitHub, the script checks the database every few minutes for pages marked ready and opens issues from them.

  • Changelog pages built from releases

    Product teams add a Notion page for each GitHub release with the tag, date and merged pull requests. The changelog database becomes the source for public release notes.

  • Roadmap items linked to issues

    Product managers keep a roadmap database in Notion and link each item to its GitHub issues. The Notion status updates when the issues close.

  • Engineering knowledge base from pull requests

    Tech leads save the description of large or labeled pull requests into a Notion engineering wiki. Design decisions stay searchable after the PR is merged.

  • Sprint pages for non-engineers

    Startups mirror open GitHub issues for the current milestone into a Notion database. Founders and designers follow progress without a GitHub seat.

More apps

GitHub, Notion and other apps in one automation

An automation isn't limited to two apps. Add the next step in another app and it runs as part of the same automation.

Release changelog in Notion and Slack

When a GitHub release is published, add a page to my Changelog database in Notion and post the link in #releases.

Weekly engineering report in Notion

Every Friday, create a Notion page summarizing merged GitHub PRs and completed Linear issues for the week.

Sprint review notes before the meeting

An hour before the Sprint Review event in Google Calendar, create a Notion page listing GitHub issues closed in the milestone.

Setup

Connect GitHub and Notion once

Every idea on this page uses the same two connections, so you set them up once. If one is missing, your assistant tells you and links to the right place.

GitHub

Developer / Source control

  1. In GitHub, open your profile picture, then Settings, Developer settings, Personal access tokens, Fine-grained tokens, and choose Generate new token.
  2. Give it a name and an expiration, and choose the resource owner (you or your organization).
  3. Under repository access, pick only the repos the automation needs, then set the minimum permissions, such as Issues, Pull requests or Contents.
  4. Generate the token and copy it.
  5. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the token as a secret for GitHub.

Notion

Productivity / Docs

  1. In Notion, open the developer portal at notion.so/profile/integrations and create a new internal integration.
  2. On its Configuration tab, copy the integration secret.
  3. On each page or database the automation should use, open ••• → Add connections and pick your integration.
  4. In the ClickRuntime dashboard, open Connections & secrets and save the secret as a secret for Notion.

FAQ

Questions about connecting GitHub and Notion

How does ClickRuntime connect to Notion?
With a Notion integration token you save in your ClickRuntime dashboard. Share each database or page the automation uses with that integration in Notion.
Do my Notion databases need certain properties?
Each automation uses a few named properties, such as Status, Priority or GitHub link. You can match them to your existing names when you set it up.
Will it overwrite pages my team edits?
No. Automations create new pages or fill in their own properties. Text your team writes is left as it is.
Can it work across several repositories?
Yes. Name the repositories, and each Notion entry records which one it came from.
Can it keep issue status in sync with Notion?
Yes. The script can store the issue number on the page and update the Status property when the issue is closed or reopened.
Does it copy code into Notion?
Only what the script is written to copy, usually titles, descriptions, labels and links. It does not copy repository files unless you ask for that.
What about issues that already exist?
A one-time run can import open issues into the database. After that, the automation only handles new events.

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