diff --git a/ai_ta_backend/vector_database.py b/ai_ta_backend/vector_database.py
index 08aa37ed..66622314 100644
--- a/ai_ta_backend/vector_database.py
+++ b/ai_ta_backend/vector_database.py
@@ -681,16 +681,17 @@ def ingest_github(self, github_url: str, course_name: str) -> str:
       data = loader.load()
       shutil.rmtree("media/cloned_repo")
       # create metadata for each file in data 
-      texts = [doc.page_content for doc in data]
-      metadatas: List[Dict[str, Any]] = [{
-              'course_name': course_name,
-              's3_path': '',
-              'readable_filename': doc.metadata['file_name'],
-              'url': github_url,
-              'pagenumber': '', 
-              'timestamp': '',
-          } for doc in data]
-      self.split_and_upload(texts=texts, metadatas=metadatas)
+      for doc in data:
+        texts = doc.page_content
+        metadatas: Dict[str, Any] = {
+                'course_name': course_name,
+                's3_path': '',
+                'readable_filename': doc.metadata['file_name'],
+                'url': github_url,
+                'pagenumber': '', 
+                'timestamp': '',
+            }
+        self.split_and_upload(texts=[texts], metadatas=[metadatas])
       return "Success"
     except Exception as e:
       print(f"ERROR IN GITHUB INGEST {e}")
@@ -756,14 +757,23 @@ def split_and_upload(self, texts: List[str], metadatas: List[Dict[str, Any]]):
           "embedding": embeddings_dict[context.page_content]
       } for context in contexts]
 
-      document = [{
-        "course_name": context.metadata.get('course_name'),
-          "s3_path": context.metadata.get('s3_path'),
-          "readable_filename": context.metadata.get('readable_filename'),
-          "url": context.metadata.get('url'),
-          "base_url": context.metadata.get('base_url'),
-          "contexts": contexts_for_supa,  # should ideally be just one context but getting JSON serialization error when I do that
-      } for context in contexts]
+      document = {
+          "course_name": contexts[0].metadata.get('course_name'),
+          "s3_path": contexts[0].metadata.get('s3_path'),
+          "readable_filename": contexts[0].metadata.get('readable_filename'),
+          "url": contexts[0].metadata.get('url'),
+          "base_url": contexts[0].metadata.get('base_url'),
+          "contexts": contexts_for_supa,
+      }
+
+      # document = [{
+      #   "course_name": context.metadata.get('course_name'),
+      #     "s3_path": context.metadata.get('s3_path'),
+      #     "readable_filename": context.metadata.get('readable_filename'),
+      #     "url": context.metadata.get('url'),
+      #     "base_url": context.metadata.get('base_url'),
+      #     "contexts": contexts_for_supa,  # should ideally be just one context but getting JSON serialization error when I do that
+      # } for context in contexts]
 
       count = self.supabase_client.table(os.getenv('NEW_NEW_NEWNEW_MATERIALS_SUPABASE_TABLE')).insert(document).execute()  # type: ignore
       print("successful END OF split_and_upload")