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# Github

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GitHub is a platform for version control and collaboration. This module provides functionality to load and process content from GitHub repositories, supporting both public and private repositories.

This module provides a sophisticated GitHub document loader that can:

* Load content from GitHub repositories
* Support private repository access
* Process repositories recursively
* Handle custom GitHub instances
* Control concurrency and retries
* Customize file filtering
* Process content with text splitters

## Inputs

### Required Parameters

* **Repo Link**: The GitHub repository URL (e.g., <https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise>)
* **Branch**: The branch to load content from (default: main)

### Optional Parameters

* **Connect Credential**: GitHub API credentials (required for private repos)
* **Recursive**: Whether to process subdirectories
* **Max Concurrency**: Maximum number of concurrent file loads
* **Github Base URL**: Custom GitHub base URL for enterprise instances
* **Github Instance API**: Custom GitHub API URL for enterprise instances
* **Ignore Paths**: Array of glob patterns for paths to ignore
* **Max Retries**: Maximum number of retry attempts
* **Text Splitter**: A text splitter to process the extracted content
* **Additional Metadata**: JSON object with additional metadata
* **Omit Metadata Keys**: Comma-separated list of metadata keys to omit

## Outputs

* **Document**: Array of document objects containing metadata and pageContent
* **Text**: Concatenated string from pageContent of documents

## Features

* Public/private repo support
* Enterprise instance support
* Recursive directory processing
* Concurrency control
* Retry mechanism
* Path filtering
* Text splitting support
* Metadata customization

## Authentication Methods

### Public Repositories

* No authentication required
* Rate limits apply
* Limited to public content

### Private Repositories

* Requires GitHub access token
* Higher rate limits
* Access to private content
* Enterprise support

## Document Structure

Each document contains:

* **pageContent**: File content
* **metadata**:
  * source: File path in repository
  * branch: Repository branch
  * commit: Commit hash
  * Additional custom metadata

## Notes

* Supports both public and private repos
* Enterprise GitHub instances supported
* Rate limiting handled automatically
* Exponential backoff for retries
* Path filtering with glob patterns
* Memory-efficient processing
* Error handling for invalid repos