Github action for generating a contribution graph for your github profile!
I took inspiration from the repositories that used heroku. However, when I noticed the rate limiting problem I figured... how often do these stats need to be updated?
If anything... once perday... right? Alleviates potential rate-limiting!
I'm new to creating github actions, so bear with me. If there is an easier way of doing things please let me know!
# run every day at midnight
on:
schedule:
- cron: "0 0 * * *"# this will generate the contribution graph into an 'images' folder
- uses: JBraunsmaJr/contributiongraph@v1
with:
token: ${{ secrets.GRAPH_QL }}
viewby: day
farback: 31
# simply update anything within the images folder that got updated...
- uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4
with:
commit_message: Updating Contribution Graph
file_pattern: images/*This needs to follow github's requirements for accessing the GraphQL api.
Then stored as a secret in your repository
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| day | the graph displays contributions by day |
| week | the graph displays contributions by week |
| month | the graph displays contributions by month |
This behavior is tied to the viewby parameter.
For instance:
farback: 12
viewby: week
This means 12 weeks back from today.
Similarly if viewby was set to days, it'd be 12 days back from today.
The only limitation is that Github limits the query to be less than 1 year.
The text to appear at the top of the graph