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GitHub Issues and PRs to Slack Notifications

Beginner   Apps: GitHub, Slack  ·  Setup: 10 minutes

The official GitHub-Slack app is all-or-nothing: subscribe a repo and drown in push events, or unsubscribe and miss the bug report that mattered. This workflow receives only issue and PR events, formats them with the label and a short body preview, and you control filtering in one Code node - by label, author, title keyword, whatever your team ignores or never should.

Download workflow JSON (free) Setup guide

What this workflow does

  1. A GitHub Trigger subscribes to issues and pull_request events on your repo.
  2. A Code node keeps only opened events (edit the filter to add labels, authors, or keywords).
  3. A Slack node posts a formatted line: type, title, author, labels, and link.

Setup guide

  1. Import the JSON into n8n (Workflows > Import from File).
  2. Connect GitHub with a personal access token (repo scope) and select your repository in the trigger.
  3. Connect Slack and choose your #dev or #bugs channel.
  4. Optionally edit the Code node filter - e.g. only issues labeled 'bug', or skip your bot accounts.
  5. Activate the workflow and open a test issue.

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FAQ

Can it watch several repositories?Duplicate the trigger node per repo and feed them into the same filter, or use an organization-level webhook with a plain Webhook node.
Can it alert only on the 'bug' label?Yes - uncomment the label filter line in the Code node and set your label name. Everything else passes through silently.
What about issue comments or merged PRs?Add those event names to the GitHub Trigger and extend the Code node - the payload shapes are similar (comment.body, pull_request.merged).

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