Adding GitHub to Your Wall

With Walls.io, you can automatically import data from GitHub onto your Wall. It's easy to achieve this with our Zapier integration. This step-by-step guide explains how it's done.

🚨 Important: This integration requires access to the Walls.io API, which can be purchased as an add-on for all plans. API access is also included in our Enterprise plans and some legacy plans.

To get started, sign up with Zapier (https://zapier.com/) if you haven't already. Zapier is a marketing tool that allows you to connect hundreds of apps without coding skills. Zapier is offering free plans, so you can get started right away!

In Walls.io, go to "Settings" -> "API Access" and activate the access token:

In Zapier, start to create your "Zap" by clicking "Make a Zap" (a Zap is kind of a "recipe" that will connect two apps, in our case GitHub + Walls.io). Enter a name for your Zap, f.e. "GitHub to Walls.io".

Zaps work with triggers and actions. In this example, we choose GitHub as the trigger, since we want Zapier to perform an action whenever something happens on GitHub.

For each trigger app, a trigger event has to be selected. In our example we are choosing "New Release", but feel free to test other trigger events according to your use case!

In order for Zapier to have access to your GitHub account, you have to sign in first.

Depending on how you are using GitHub, you might have multiple repositories in your account. Choose the one you want to connect to your Social Wall.

Zapier will not let you complete the setup of a trigger or action without testing it first.

As you did for the trigger, you need to select an app for the action.

Depending on what you want to do (in this example, we want to create a new post), you have to select an action event.

For Zapier to have access to your wall, you need to enter the access token for your wall.

🚨 Important: Be careful not to expose this access token, as anyone with it will have access to your walls' content.

Finally, you need to map the GitHub data to Walls.io. We recommend getting started with these fields:

Select True for Moderation Status if you want to set your wall to Automatic Moderation. If you prefer to have Manual Moderation (=approve each post manually before it gets displayed on your social Wall), select "False".

After publishing Zap, all releases of your GitHub repository will be automatically sent to your Wall! 🚀

In this example, we've used the trigger "New Release" to display all new releases on your wall. The GitHub app on Zapier offers many triggers, like "New Commit", "New Issue"... you can find all here!