This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Soros Liu
My Workflow
As an active user of GitHub, I am always interested in new followers from GitHub, caring a lot about who they are, where are they from, what they do, etc.
So I create a GitHub Action to email me daily, about my follower change events.
Here it is !
Sorosliu1029
/
follower-change
đź“Ł Get GitHub follower change event
Follower Change
What this action does ?
Get GitHub follower change event, i.e. when a user follows or unfollows you.
It is not realtime, since GitHub does not provide 'follow' events.
So you may run it periodically as a cron job.
Refer to detailed explanation for how it works.
My own working example:
name: follower notifier
on
# notify me daily
schedule:
- cron: '0 3 * * *' # in UTC time
jobs:
main:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: get follower change
id: followerChange
uses: Sorosliu1029/follower-change@v2
with:
myToken: ${{ secrets.MY_TOKEN }}
notifyUnFollowEvent: true
- name: email me
uses: dawidd6/action-send-mail@v3
if: steps.followerChange.outputs.shouldNotify == 'true'
with:
server_address: smtp.qq.com
server_port: 465
username: ${{ secrets.MAIL_USERNAME }}
password: ${{ secrets.MAIL_PASSWORD }}
subject: GitHub Follower Change
from: Follower Change…
Submission Category:
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Yaml File or Link to Code
This workflow composites my follower-change action with Send email action
name: follower notifier
on:
schedule:
- cron: '0 3 * * *' # in UTC time
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
main:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: get follower change
id: followerChange
uses: Sorosliu1029/follower-change@v2
with:
myToken: ${{ secrets.MY_TOKEN }}
notifyUnFollowEvent: true
- name: email me
uses: dawidd6/action-send-mail@v3
if: steps.followerChange.outputs.shouldNotify == 'true'
with:
server_address: smtp.qq.com
server_port: 465
username: ${{ secrets.MAIL_USERNAME }}
password: ${{ secrets.MAIL_PASSWORD }}
subject: GitHub Follower Change
from: Follower Change Notifier
to: ${{ secrets.TO_EMAIL_ADDRESS }}
html_body: file://${{ steps.followerChange.outputs.htmlFilePath }}
Additional Resources / Info
Here is how the email looks like, hope you receive it everyday !
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Soros Liu
Soros Liu | Sciencx (2021-12-01T10:02:45+00:00) đź“Ł Get GitHub follower change notification. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/12/01/%f0%9f%93%a3-get-github-follower-change-notification/
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