bmayhew/version-checker

A small repo with github action for checking github releases and notifying via slack

Version Checker

This repo contains a github action that will allow you to stay up to date with the latest changes from github repositories you care about. The version checker is currently configured to monitor Playwright releases. To change this, modify the version-checker.yml file with the github repository you intend to watch.

To get the the version checker slack notification working, you should be able to:

• Fork this repository
• Create a Slack Incoming Webhook Url
  • Slack Administration -> Manage Custom Apps
  • Search Directory for Incoming Webhooks and Add to Slack.
  • Choose your channel and click Add Incoming Webhook Button
  • Finish configuring saving the Webhook URL https://hooks.slack.com/services/******/******/******* was how mine looked.
• Create a Github Actions Secret here https://github.com/<your_name>/version-checker/settings/secrets/actions with the name SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL and value https://hooks.slack.com/{Your Webhook URL}

Now every weekday at 12:05AM the github actions job will run. If there is a new release you will be notified in slack.

For testing purposes you can also browse to your repo -> Actions -> Select Version Checker workflow and you should have a Run Workflow dropdown that can be used to manually trigger the job.