Who is this for? This workflow is ideal for: Developers** who want to stay updated on issues without constantly checking GitHub. Managers** tracking issue progress in a Telegram group. DevOps teams that need automated notification alerts for new or updated issues. What problem does this workflow solve? Keeping track of GitHub issues manually can be tedious. Teams often miss critical updates because notifications are buried in emails or dashboards. This workflow automates the process by fetching new or open GitHub issues and instantly sending notifications to a specified Telegram chat. What this workflow does This workflow connects GitHub and Telegram to provide real-time issue notifications: Fetch GitHub Issues – Retrieves new or open issues from a selected GitHub repository. Format the Issue Details – Extracts key information like issue title, number, status, and URL. Send to Telegram – Posts the formatted issue details to a Telegram group or private chat. Setup Guide Prerequisites Before setting up the workflow, ensure you have: GitHub Personal Access Token**: Required to fetch issue details. Generate it under Developer Settings with repo or public_repo permissions.
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See all GitHub→Back up all workflows to GitHub with daily schedule and Telegram /backup
Quick overview This workflow backs up all workflows from your n8n instance to a GitHub repository every day at 03:00, and also supports an on-demand Telegram /backup command, then sends a Telegram message with the backup result and commit link. How it works Runs daily at 03:00 and also triggers when a Telegram message is received. Checks that the incoming Telegram message starts with /backup before proceeding with the manual run. Fetches all workflows from the n8n instance via the n8n API. Builds a JSON backup file containing the workflows and sets the GitHub file path as backups/YYYY-MM-DD/workflows.json. Checks in GitHub whether the backup file already exists and either updates it or creates it with a dated commit message. Sends a Telegram notification to the triggering chat (or a predefined admin chat for scheduled runs) including the workflow count and GitHub commit URL. Setup Create and select an n8n API credential that can read workflows from your n8n instance. Add a GitHub credential with access to the target repository and set the owner/repo values to your backup repo. Add a Telegram bot credential, enable the Telegram trigger webhook, and use the bot to send /backup from t
WBackup workflows to GitHub
Note: This workflow uses the internal API which is not official. This workflow might break in the future. The workflow executes every night at 23:59. You can configure a different time bin the Cron node. Configure the GitHub nodes with your username, repo name, and the file path. In the HTTP Request nodes (making a request to localhost:5678), create Basic Auth credentials with your n8n instance username and password.
Automate assigning GitHub issues
This workflow assigns a user to an issue if they include "assign me" when opening or commenting. To use this workflow you will need to update the credentials used for the Github nodes.