Flag GitHub issues when external news affects the work
A scheduled news check can bring a credible external development back to the specific GitHub issue it affects, using an existing label as a lightweight review signal.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Add labels to an issue
Adds labels (provided in the request body) to a repository issue; labels that do not already exist are created.
Why this helps
Important market or regulatory news can be easy to miss when active decisions are tracked in GitHub and context is checked elsewhere.
- Bring directly relevant outside developments to the issue that owns the decision.
- Use a pre-existing label as a narrow review flag instead of generating new issues or changing access.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect World News API and GitHub to Notis once in the portal.
- 2Create the automation in the portal or ask Notis for it in plain language.
- 3Tell Notis the news topic, existing GitHub repository and issue, and existing review label; add the label only for a credible, material story that directly affects that issue.
- 4Select a recurring Notis schedule and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test with a known relevant news item and confirm the existing label is applied only to the designated issue.
Questions about this workflow
Does this create a GitHub issue for every news result?
No. It uses World News API to look for developments on the configured topic and adds an existing label only to the single existing issue specified in the instruction when the relevance threshold is met.
Will it create a new GitHub label or edit the issue text?
No. The instruction should use an existing review label and does not create issues or change issue text. The run report can include the source details for the reviewed story.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link World news api to GitHub. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
World news api triggers
GitHub actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Accept a repository invitation
Accepts a pending repository invitation that has been issued to the authenticated user.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
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.
List stargazers
Deprecated: lists users who have starred a repository; use `list stargazers` instead.
Star a repository for the authenticated user
Deprecated: stars a repository for the authenticated user; use `star a repository for the authenticated user` instead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
World news api and GitHub, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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