ClickUp CI Integration

Overview

Automate ClickUp integration testing in CI and sync task statuses from your pipeline. Uses GitHub Actions with live API testing against ClickUp API v2.

Prerequisites

• Protected CI environment with a scoped, masked ClickUp secret
• Mock fixtures for pull requests and an isolated task/list for live tests
• A bounded cleanup strategy and environment approval for any status update
• Artifact/log retention policy that excludes task content and credentials

Instructions

Run mocks and schema checks on every change, reserve live API tests for the protected integration environment, and create only identifiable disposable tasks. Verify cleanup and status transitions after each run; a failed cleanup, permission mismatch, or rate-limit response fails the workflow rather than being ignored or retried with a broader token.

GitHub Actions Workflow

# .github/workflows/clickup-integration.yml
name: ClickUp Integration Tests

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  unit-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: '20'
          cache: 'npm'
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm test -- --coverage

  integration-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: unit-tests
    env:
      CLICKUP_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CLICKUP_API_TOKEN }}
      CLICKUP_TEST_LIST_ID: ${{ secrets.CLICKUP_TEST_LIST_ID }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: '20'
          cache: 'npm'
      - run: npm ci
      - name: ClickUp API health check
        run: |
          STATUS=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" \
            https://api.clickup.com/api/v2/user \
            -H "Authorization: $CLICKUP_API_TOKEN")
          if [ "$STATUS" != "200" ]; then
            echo "::warning::ClickUp API returned $STATUS, skipping integration tests"
            exit 0
          fi
      - name: Run integration tests
        run: CLICKUP_LIVE=1 npm run test:integration

Configure Secrets

# Store ClickUp token in GitHub Secrets
gh secret set CLICKUP_API_TOKEN --body "pk_12345678_YOUR_TOKEN"

# Store test list ID (for integration tests to create/delete test tasks)
gh secret set CLICKUP_TEST_LIST_ID --body "900100200300"

Integration Test Suite

// tests/integration/clickup-ci.test.ts
import { describe, it, expect, afterAll } from 'vitest';

const TOKEN = process.env.CLICKUP_API_TOKEN!;
const TEST_LIST = process.env.CLICKUP_TEST_LIST_ID!;
const BASE = 'https://api.clickup.com/api/v2';
const createdTaskIds: string[] = [];

async function api(path: string, options?: RequestInit) {
  const res = await fetch(`${BASE}${path}`, {
    ...options,
    headers: { 'Authorization': TOKEN, 'Content-Type': 'application/json', ...options?.headers },
  });
  return { status: res.status, data: await res.json() };
}

describe('ClickUp API Integration', () => {
  it('authenticates successfully', async () => {
    const { status, data } = await api('/user');
    expect(status).toBe(200);
    expect(data.user.id).toBeDefined();
  });

  it('creates a task in test list', async () => {
    const { status, data } = await api(`/list/${TEST_LIST}/task`, {
      method: 'POST',
      body: JSON.stringify({
        name: `CI Test Task - ${new Date().toISOString()}`,
        description: 'Created by CI pipeline, safe to delete',
        priority: 4,
      }),
    });
    expect(status).toBe(200);
    expect(data.id).toBeDefined();
    createdTaskIds.push(data.id);
  });

  it('reads the created task', async () => {
    const { status, data } = await api(`/task/${createdTaskIds[0]}`);
    expect(status).toBe(200);
    expect(data.name).toContain('CI Test Task');
  });

  afterAll(async () => {
    // Cleanup: delete test tasks
    for (const id of createdTaskIds) {
      await api(`/task/${id}`, { method: 'DELETE' });
    }
  });
});

Sync CI Status to ClickUp Task

// scripts/update-clickup-task.ts
// Run after deploy: npx tsx scripts/update-clickup-task.ts TASK_ID "deployed"
async function updateTaskFromCI(taskId: string, newStatus: string) {
  const response = await fetch(
    `https://api.clickup.com/api/v2/task/${taskId}`,
    {
      method: 'PUT',
      headers: {
        'Authorization': process.env.CLICKUP_API_TOKEN!,
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({ status: newStatus }),
    }
  );

  if (!response.ok) {
    console.error(`Failed to update task ${taskId}:`, await response.text());
    process.exit(1);
  }
  console.log(`Task ${taskId} status updated to "${newStatus}"`);
}

const [taskId, status] = process.argv.slice(2);
updateTaskFromCI(taskId, status);

Error Handling

Output

Publish a redacted CI receipt containing fixture/API test result, disposable task IDs, cleanup result, rate-limit state, workflow URL, and promotion decision. Keep tokens, task descriptions, private comments, and member data out of logs and artifacts.

Examples

On a protected branch, create one labeled test task in an isolated list, verify the expected status update, then delete it and prove it is absent. If cleanup does not complete or the secret is unavailable, fail the run and notify the integration owner instead of leaving production-like tasks behind.

Resources

• GitHub Actions Secrets
• ClickUp API Reference

Next Steps

For deployment patterns, see clickup-deploy-integration.