---
title: invite-contributors
description: Invite authors of merged pull requests to your organization
slug: invite-contributors
screenshots:
- https://i.imgur.com/IoTF1aD.png
authors:
- erickzhao
repository: erickzhao/invite-contributors
stars: 18
updated: 2018-04-15 23:17:35 UTC
host: https://vast-stream-78160.herokuapp.com
installations: 17
organizations:
- Laravel-Backpack
- cla-assistant
- contentful-userland
- flyve-mdm
- react-native-sensors
- LibreTime
- aethonanbot
- sydneyhaskell
- baas-cloud
- elofyi
---

# invite-contributors

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**invite-contributors** is a GitHub App built with [probot](https://github.com/probot/probot) that automatically invites new contributors to your repository's organization once they get a Pull Request merged.

## Usage

1. Configure the GitHub App.
2. invite-contributors will automatically invite new users who have their pull requests merged to your organization.
3. More options are available if you add a `.github/invite-contributors.yml` file into your repository such as below.

```
# If true, this will add new contributors as outside collaborators
# to the repo their PR was merged in. Team name is ignored if this
# flag is set to true.
isOutside: false

# Specify team name to add new contributors to a specific team
# within your organization.
# Use team name or team-name-slug
team: MY TEAM NAME
```

## Contributing

Anyone can contribute with [issues](https://github.com/erickzhao/invite-contributors/issues) and [PRs](https://github.com/erickzhao/invite-contributors/pulls). If you're submitting a pull request, always create a new branch to work your changes, and try squashing commits down if possible. Always test any new code and make sure `npm test` passes and code coverage is adequate before opening a PR.