# Parse \`payload\` (GitHub deployments)
**URL:** https://drone.discourse.group/t/parse-payload-github-deployments/4389
**Category:** Drone Support
**Created:** [November 6, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/parse-payload-github-deployments/4389 "2017-11-06T20:35:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@CentaurWarchief](https://drone.discourse.group/u/CentaurWarchief)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/parse-payload-github-deployments/4389/1 "2017-11-06T20:35:21Z")
Hey y’all. Is there any way to read `payload` from GitHub deployment event and inject the JSON into a environment variable? So I can read it using jq and extract extra information for my deployments
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### Author:  [@ozbillwang](https://drone.discourse.group/u/ozbillwang)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/parse-payload-github-deployments/4389/2 "2017-11-06T23:19:08Z")
Didn’t use payload before, but Drone doesn’t support to inject system environments on-fly and automatically inherit with next steps.
So you have to save it to a file, such as `payload.json`, all rest pipeline steps will be able to read it directly.
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### Author:  [@CentaurWarchief](https://drone.discourse.group/u/CentaurWarchief)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2017, 12:15am UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/parse-payload-github-deployments/4389/3 "2017-11-07T00:15:27Z")
Right, but how do I currently read it from the event?