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Check a GitHub follow relationship when you need it

Keep an occasional check on a specific user relationship without opening profiles and comparing them by hand.

Trigger

Recurring schedule

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

Action

Check if a user follows another user

Checks if a github user `username` follows `target user`; returns a 204 http status if true, 404 if not or if users are invalid.

Why this helps

When keeping track of a particular public relationship matters to a project, manual profile checks are easy to defer or forget.

  • Check one specified source and target username
  • Get a recurring status report
  • Avoid repeated profile lookups

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Browseai and GitHub once in the Notis portal.
  • 2Create an automation in Automations, New Automation, then name it and describe the follow relationship check.
  • 3Specify the GitHub username and target username to check.
  • 4Pick a recurring schedule and choose where run reports should go.
  • 5Test with one real username pair and confirm the result.

Questions about this workflow

Is this checking whether my connected account follows someone?

No. This action checks whether a specified GitHub user follows a specified target user.

Does the check change a follow relationship?

No. It only checks the relationship.

What if a username is invalid?

GitHub may report not found when the users are invalid or the relationship is absent. Review the identifiers in the report.

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Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Browseai to GitHub. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Browseai triggers

GitHub actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Accept a repository invitation

Accepts a pending repository invitation that has been issued to the authenticated user.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

List repositories starred by the authenticated user

Deprecated: lists repositories starred by the authenticated user, including star creation timestamps; use 'list repositories starred by the authenticated user' instead.

ActionInstant

List stargazers

Deprecated: lists users who have starred a repository; use `list stargazers` instead.

ActionInstant

Star a repository for the authenticated user

Deprecated: stars a repository for the authenticated user; use `star a repository for the authenticated user` instead.

ActionInstant

Add email for auth user

Adds one or more email addresses (which will be initially unverified) to the authenticated user's github account; use this to associate new emails, noting an email verified for another account will error, while an existing email for the current user is accepted.

ActionInstant

Add app access restrictions

Replaces github app access restrictions for an existing protected branch; requires a json array of app slugs in the request body, where apps must be installed and have 'contents' write permissions.

ActionInstant

Add a repository collaborator

Adds a github user as a repository collaborator, or updates their permission if already a collaborator; `permission` applies to organization-owned repositories (personal ones default to 'push' and ignore this field), and an invitation may be created or permissions updated directly.

ActionInstant

Add a repository to an app installation

Adds a repository to a github app installation, granting the app access; requires authenticated user to have admin rights for the repository and access to the installation.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Browseai and GitHub, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

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