📌 GitHub Action to update GitHub profile README.md with categorized repos based on their Topics
TOPICS: list of topics to categorize repos byEMAIL: git user email addressUSERNAME: OPTIONAL; git username; defaults to repository ownerREPOSITORY: OPTIONAL; the repository to update its readme; defaults to current repository
- Aggregates all user source repos (not forked or archived), and group them by specified provided Topics
- Sort results based on number of Stars
- Calculate relative time passed since last update
- Update the target repository README with the generated content
- Add this comment somewhere in your
README.md. You can find an example here.
<!--START_SECTION:topics-->
<!--END_SECTION:topics-->
- Create a workflow file.
.github/workflows/readme-topics.yml
name: readme-topics
run-name: Update README.md with repos categorized by topic
on:
schedule:
- cron: "0 0 * * 0"
workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
generate-topics:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: metaory/github-readme-topics-action@v1
env:
GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} # your personal-access-tokens with write permission
with:
# USERNAME: metaory # OPTIONAL; the committer username, defaults to repository owner (GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER)
# REPOSITORY: playground # OPTIONAL; the repository name to update its readme, defaults to current repository (GITHUB_REPOSITORY)
EMAIL: metaory@gmail.com # REQUIRED; the committer email address
TOPICS: |- # REQUIRED; list of topics to group by
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themeThe above job runs every one week, you can change it as you wish based on the cron syntax.
- format relative date (update column)
- add links (name column)
- publish a tag release