If you've ever thought, "wouldn't it be cool if GitHub could…"; imma stop you right there. Most features can actually be added via GitHub Apps, which extend GitHub and can be installed directly on organizations and user accounts and granted access to specific repositories. They come with granular permissions and built-in webhooks. Apps are first class actors within GitHub.
Probot is a framework for building GitHub Apps in Node.js. Check out some of the featured apps or read the docs to learn more about writing a new app.
Probot is built by people just like you! Most of the interesting things are built with Probot, so consider starting by writing a new app or improving one of the existing ones, and check out our contributing docs for other ways to get started.
Want to chat with Probot users and contributors? Join us in Slack!
Have an idea for a cool new GitHub App (built with Probot)? That's great! If you want feedback, help, or just to share it with the world you can do so by creating an issue in the probot/ideas repository!
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A framework for building GitHub Apps to automate and improve your workflow
The npm package probot receives a total of 19,574 weekly downloads. As such, probot popularity was classified as popular.
We found that probot demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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