User permissions on morph.io

[pwalsh]

At Open Knowledge we’re starting a fairly large-scale scraping project around medical trials, and of course we want to use morph.io.

We’ve just setup our first scraper:

• https://github.com/okfn/opentrials-clinicaltrailsgov-data
• https://morph.io/okfn/opentrials-clinicaltrailsgov-data

(We have some issues with timeouts etc., as the data we are scraping is quite extensive, but that is a subject for a different thread)

My problem now is one of permissions - unlike other services (Shippable, Travis, Coveralls) that use GitHub for user access/permissions, contributors with write permissions on the GitHub repo for the scraper do not have permissions on morph.io to make actions (run the scraper on demand). is this a bug or a feature? Is there anyway around this?

[henare]

@pwalsh

At Open Knowledge we’re starting a fairly large-scale scraping project around medical trials, and of course we want to use morph.io.

Excellent - that looks like a great project!

@pwalsh

My problem now is one of permissions - unlike other services (Shippable, Travis, Coveralls) that use GitHub for user access/permissions, contributors with write permissions on the GitHub repo for the scraper do not have permissions on morph.io to make actions (run the scraper on demand). is this a bug or a feature? Is there anyway around this?

Because everything on morph.io is based on public permissions I suspect this is actually because the person in question hasn’t publicized their membership of @okfn. Try checking that then getting them to log in and out of morph.io.

[pwalsh]

Ah I see. That explains it - thanks for the help.