My Awesome List

This action query the github api to get starred list of the user and then generates a list ordered by languages.

You can see an example of the output at my own simonecorsi/awesome

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Documentation
  • Requirements
  • Configuration
    • api-token
• Example workflow

Documentation

Requirements

• An empty repository
• A personal github api key

Configuration

The service can be configured setting the appropriate environment variables or writing an .env file.

Variable	Description	Default
api-token	Personal github api token.	${{ secrets.API_TOKEN }}
github-token	Action Token	${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
github-name	Name used for the commit, default to action	Github Action
github-email	email used for commit, default to action	actions@users.noreply.github.com

api-token

The Personal API Access Token is mandatory to fetch stars from the API without incurring in Rate Limits.

You'll have to generate a personal api token and then add

Example workflow

name: Update awesome list

on: 
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Awesome generator
        uses: simonecorsi/mawesome@latest
        with:
          api-token: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN }}
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          github-email: ${{ secrets.USER_EMAIL }}
          github-name: ${{ github.repository_owner }}