holyhope/github-watcher

Have a daily summarize of your favorite repository

github-watcher

Lets get a summarize of all github repository you want.

How to?

1. Generate github personal access: https://github.com/blog/1509-personal-api-tokens This application does not requires any specific access
2. Get OVH Functions client
3. Export credentials to your environment

   export USERNAME="my-github-login"
   export API_TOKEN="my-generated-token"

4. Clone this repository

   git clone [email protected]:holyhope/github-watcher.git

5. Deploy your function:

   cd where-you-cloned-the-repository
   ovh-functions deploy

6. Execute the function with 1 parameter which is the github id: owner/repository:

   echo -n "holyhope/github-watcher" | ovh-functions exec github_watch

Daily report

1. Update functions.yml to execute the function daily
2. Deploy once more the function
3. Wait till the function is executed and check the logs

   ovh-functions logs github_watch

Collect results

1. Install a webserver which will receive 1 POST request for each result I recommend ElasticSearch, but you can also use requestb.in for dev purpose.
2. Configure POST_URL variable:

   export POST_URL="https://use:password@elasticsearch:9200/github-watcher/result"

3. Deploy the function one more time

/!\ Your webserver must be accessible over the Internet, so please use a basic authentication in the url