jasonetco/rss-to-readme

📡📝 A GitHub Action that updates a section of a README from an RSS feed.

👋 Hello! I'm Jason.

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Blog posts

• CODEOWNERS-driven file organization
• Remix first impressions
• On "Spike work"
• Assorted thoughts on documentation
• On "lurking"

Here's a photo of my cat:

rss-to-readme's Issues

ATOM support?

Does this action support ATOM feeds?

## Step 4: Create a branch

Step 4: Create a branch

Let’s complete the first step of the GitHub flow: creating a branch ^📖.

Creating a branch

Creating a branch

📺 Video: Branches

You just learned how to create a branch—the first step in the GitHub flow.

Branches are an important part of the GitHub flow because they allow us to separate our work from the master branch. In other words, everyone's work is safe while you contribute.

Tips for using branches

A single project can have hundreds of branches, each suggesting a new change to the master branch.

The best way to keep branches organized with a team is to keep them concise and short-lived. In other words, a single branch should represent a single new feature or bug fix. This reduces confusion among contributors when branches are only active for a few days before they’re merged ^📖 into the master branch.

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⌨️ Activity: Your first branch

1. Navigate to the Code tab
2. Click Branch: master in the drop-down
3. In the field, enter a name for your branch, like my-slide
4. Click Create branch: or press the Enter key to create your branch

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I'll respond when I detect a new branch has been created in this repository.

Originally posted by @github-learning-lab in sparkil/github-slideshow#5 (comment)

Release v1.2.0 seems to be broken

Trying to use the latest release results in the following error message:
File not found: '/home/runner/work/_actions/JasonEtco/rss-to-readme/v1.2.0/dist/index.js'

Looking at the Actions tab, building v1.2.0 has an error.

markdown table

Hello,

I am using rss-to-readme to generate a table with all my blog posts. However markdown is not happy with comments in the middle of the generated table.

See this example to get a better picture: https://github.com/joaohf/beam_mignon/blob/master/README.md

Is there other way to create a table? Maybe we can add some sort of pre_template and post_template then the table header can be put in pre_template ?

Expose the emptyCommits property

I see that the emptyCommits was added to readme-box. I'd like to be able to set that from this action.

Node.js 12 is deprecated

I just got this error from GitHub:

Node.js 12 actions are deprecated. Please update the following actions to use Node.js 16: JasonEtco/rss-to-readme@v2. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-09-22-github-actions-all-actions-will-begin-running-on-node16-instead-of-node12/.

Error: Status code 503

Hello,
Thank you for the great workflow.

I'm opening this issue due to a failure that is happening in my Repo for no reason, I've set up the workflow to work the same way as you described in the Readme file.

You can see my implementation here: https://github.com/igorradovanov/igorradovanov/blob/master/.github/workflows/update-feed.yaml

However, the Workflow is experiencing issues:
✖ fatal Error: Status code 503

Is there something I am missing? The RSS feed is available.

Thank you!

Filter RSS response data

There should be some filtering criteria, like excluding or including a specific creator/author or based on tags etc.

Branch not respected by readme-box

Thanks for merging #10 but there still seems to be an issue. Here's a job run explicitly against v1.2.5 - https://github.com/aaronpowell/aaronpowell/runs/2007910650?check_suite_focus=true

It fails because it still tried to use master as the branch, even though the branch is explicitly set to main (https://github.com/aaronpowell/aaronpowell/runs/2007910650?check_suite_focus=true#step:2:5).

Digging through the code, it seems the problem is with readme-box not respecting the branch option being passed on https://github.com/JasonEtco/rss-to-readme/blob/main/src/index.ts#L35

If you look at the v0.1.2 release of the package, and when it tries to update the readme (https://github.com/JasonEtco/readme-box/blob/v0.1.2/src/index.ts#L93) it's not respecting the provided branch, it's hardcoded with master. That was fixed with JasonEtco/readme-box@a200e2e but it looks like a new npm package hasn't been released with those changes (see the bundled version https://github.com/JasonEtco/rss-to-readme/blob/v1.2.5/dist/index.js#L1393).

Looks like JasonEtco/readme-box#5 just needs to be closed and a new version pushed, then for this Action to use the new version.

Sparkilsworld

Only works with `master` as main branch

This action only works with old-style repositories where the main branch is called master.

Suggested fix: add a config option branch that would pass the value on to README Box.

Error: No commit found for the ref master

I'm sure there's something I've configured incorrectly, but the scheduled build fails every night with the error

Error: No commit found for the ref master
✖ fatal HttpError: No commit found for the ref master
at /home/runner/work/_actions/JasonEtco/rss-to-readme/v1/dist/index.js:19081:21
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:97:5)