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

Keep GitHub and Notion 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 Notion

Stop re-entering the same information in GitHub and Notion: Stacksync keeps the records they share consistent in real time, in both directions.

Two tools in the daily stack often hold overlapping information: the same people, the same companies, or the same pieces of work, described twice. The tools do different jobs, so consolidating is not the answer; the overlap just needs to stop drifting.

Stacksync syncs Workflow runs (Actions), Organizations and Teams, Users, Labels and Milestones in GitHub with Users, Comments, Files and attachments, Pages in Notion in real time. You choose which records overlap, map the fields that should match, and pick a direction or let changes flow both ways. From then on, an update made in either tool is reflected in the other within seconds, without exports or copy-paste.

Because the sync is field-level, each tool keeps its own extras; only the shared data is held in agreement.

Common use cases

  • 01 Create GitHub issues automatically from records written elsewhere, such as bug reports logged in a CRM case object.
  • 02 Publish release data into customer-communication tools when a new version ships.
  • 03 Read Notion wiki Pages and their Blocks into a database or search index for internal knowledge retrieval.
  • 04 Two-way sync a Notion projects or tasks data source with a Postgres table so engineers work in SQL while the team edits Pages in Notion, mapping status, date, and assignee properties both ways.

Common sync patterns

Where Notion is where the team documents or plans: keep its data fed

Information that originates in GitHub stays current in Notion instead of going stale after a one-time paste.

Handoffs between teams

When work started in one tool continues in the other, the shared fields travel with it automatically.

Where both tools track people or companies: one consistent record

Contact and company details corrected in either tool update the other, so nobody works from the old version.

What you can sync between GitHub and Notion

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 Notion objects How this pairing syncs
Users Author and assignee identities matched to internal directories. Users Workspace members and bots referenced by people properties; read-only — users cannot be created or invited through the API. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions.
Labels and Milestones Classification fields mapped to statuses and sprints in external trackers. Pages The core content unit and also every row of a database; synced two-way as records, with typed properties mapping to table columns. Labels and Milestones is specific to GitHub and Pages to Notion — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Repositories Top-level containers whose metadata and settings syncs read to scope other objects. Databases / Data sources Collections of pages with a typed property schema. Since the 2025-09-03 API a database is a container holding one or more data sources; syncs target a specific data_source_id. Repositories is specific to GitHub and Databases / Data sources to Notion — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Issues Synced two-way with project trackers and support tools, including labels and assignees. Properties Typed columns on a page — title, rich_text, number, select, multi_select, date, people, relation, status, checkbox, URL. Read and written both ways. Issues is specific to GitHub and Properties to Notion — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Pull Requests Review state, status checks, and merge status feed engineering dashboards and workflow tools. Blocks The page body — paragraphs, headings, to-dos, tables — nested as children and fetched recursively, separate from a page's properties. Pull Requests is specific to GitHub and Blocks to Notion — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Commits Read-only history used to link code activity to tickets and releases. Formula and Rollup properties Values computed by Notion from other fields; read-only, so they are pulled out for reporting but never written back. Commits is specific to GitHub and Formula and Rollup properties to Notion — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between GitHub and Notion

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

GitHub Notion Sub-second propagation

DetectionGitHub notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks with a broad event catalog covering issues, pull requests, pushes, and releases.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Notion through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Notion GitHub Sub-second propagation

DetectionNotion notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Workspace webhooks (page.created, page.content_updated, data_source.schema_updated, comment.created.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to GitHub through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • GitHub: Authenticated REST requests are limited to 5,000 per hour per user; GitHub Apps scale limits per installation.
  • Notion: Average of ~3 requests/second per integration with some bursts; 429 with a Retry-After header when exceeded. Payloads capped at 500 KB and 1000 block elements.
What ships with GitHub ⇄ Notion

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever GitHub or Notion 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 Notion record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your GitHub ⇄ Notion 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 Notion.

How the GitHub and Notion 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.

Notion

Integration surface
REST API (api.notion.com/v1)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 for public integrations, or an internal integration secret (bearer token); every request must send a Notion-Version header
Change detection
Workspace webhooks (page.created, page.content_updated, data_source.schema_updated, comment.created; HMAC-SHA256 signed) plus polling on each page's last_edited_time
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Average of ~3 requests/second per integration with some bursts; 429 with a Retry-After header when exceeded. Payloads capped at 500 KB and 1000 block elements.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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