Automated GitHub Code Review Email Notifications
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Automatically receive detailed, visually formatted code review emails for every push to your GitHub repositories. This workflow keeps you instantly updated with changes, additions, and deletions, streamlining your review process and ensuring crucial updates don't go unnoticed.
About This Workflow
Never miss a code change again with this powerful n8n workflow designed for seamless GitHub integration. It automatically triggers upon a push event to your chosen repository, fetches comprehensive commit details, and transforms them into an elegantly formatted HTML email. Get a clear overview of repository information, commit specifics, and visually distinct code diffs (additions in green, deletions in red) delivered straight to your inbox. This automation acts as your personal code change auditor, enhancing visibility and accelerating your development and review cycles.
Key Features
- Instant GitHub Push Trigger: Automatically initiates the workflow when new code is pushed to your specified GitHub repository.
- Comprehensive Commit Details: Fetches and organizes vital information including repository name, owner, commit author, message, and all file changes.
- Visualized Code Diffs: Renders code additions in green and deletions in red within the email, making changes easy to spot and understand.
- Detailed HTML Reports: Generates a rich HTML email report containing repository info, commit summary, and a file-by-file breakdown of changes, including patch details.
- Personalized Email Notifications: Delivers these insightful code review summaries directly to your configured Gmail address.
How To Use
- GitHub Trigger:
- Connect your GitHub account credential.
- Select the
pushevent. - Specify the
OwnerandRepositoryyou wish to monitor for code changes.
- Parser (Set): This node is pre-configured to extract key commit and repository data from the GitHub trigger. No manual changes are typically needed.
- HTTP Request:
- Connect your GitHub OAuth2 API credential.
- The URL expression dynamically fetches commit details; ensure it maps correctly to the
head_commit.idfrom the GitHub Trigger's output.
- Code:
- Copy and paste the provided JavaScript code into this node. This script is responsible for formatting the commit data and generating the styled HTML output (available as
$json.htmlOutput).
- Copy and paste the provided JavaScript code into this node. This script is responsible for formatting the commit data and generating the styled HTML output (available as
- Gmail:
- Connect your Gmail OAuth2 credential.
- Set the
Send Toemail address (e.g.,youremail@example.com). - Set the
Subjectto "Code Review" or a custom title. - Map the
Messagefield to the HTML output from theCodenode. (e.g.,={{ $json.htmlOutput }})
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "ee3cf0b0-e93c-4283-9343-096631807c2d",
"name": "Automated GitHub Code Review Email Notifications",
"nodes": 7,
"category": "DevOps",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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