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GitHub composite action to request and accumulate a forum board post replies and views statistic.

Tutorial to use with: https://github.com/andry81-devops/accum-content

All tutorials: https://github.com/andry81/index#tutorials

gh-action--accum-board-stats@master

Features:

• Repository to track and repository to store traffic statistic can be different, and you may directly point the statistic as commits list: https://github.com/{{REPO_OWNER}}/{{REPO}}--gh-stats/commits/master/traffic/board/phpbb

• Workflow is used accum-stats.sh bash script to accumulate traffic statistic

• The script accumulates statistic both into a single file and into a set of files grouped by year and allocated per day: traffic/board/phpbb/by_year/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD.json

Functionality of the script:

• CONTINUE_ON_INVALID_INPUT=1, CONTINUE_ON_EMPTY_CHANGES=1: Treats invalid input or empty changes as not an error as by default.

• ENABLE_GENERATE_CHANGELOG_FILE=1, CHANGELOG_FILE=".../changelog.txt": Generates a textual changelog file with notes about changes per commit including the changes absence in case of skipped errors.

• ENABLE_COMMIT_MESSAGE_DATE_WITH_TIME=1: Inserts the time string in format HH:MMZ additionally after the date in each commit message (by default inserts only a date for shorter commit messages).

• ENABLE_COMMIT_MESSAGE_WITH_WORKFLOW_RUN_NUMBER=1: Inserts the workflow run number after date/time prefix in each commit message (by default does not insert for shorter commit messages).

• ENABLE_GITHUB_ACTIONS_RUN_URL_PRINT_TO_CHANGELOG=1: Prints GitHub Actions Run URL (with or without workflow run number) into the changelog file to reference the log on the GitHub from the changelog file.

• ENABLE_REPO_STATS_COMMITS_URL_PRINT_TO_CHANGELOG=1: Prints Statistic Output Repository commit URL into the changelog file to reference the commit from being committed changelog file.

  Note The actual hash of the commit can not be know on the moment of the commit. So instead of the commit hash, an approximate date of the commit is used (~ +5 min ahead) in format of: https://github.com/{{REPO_OWNER}}/{{REPO}}--gh-stats/commits?branch={{BRANCH}}&time_zone=utc&until=YYYY-MM-DD

• ENABLE_PRINT_CURL_RESPONSE_ON_ERROR=1: Prints curl response in case of an error (by default only the progress prints)

USAGE

Warning You must replace all placeholder into respective values:

• {{REPO_OWNER}} -> repository owner
• {{REPO}} -> your repository
• {{BRANCH}} -> your repository branch or reference
• {{TOPIC_KEYWORDS}} -> topic keywords
• {{TOPIC_AUTHOR}} -> topic author

Examples:

.github/workflows/accum-phpbb-board-stats.yml:

name: phpbb board stats updating every 4 hours

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 */4 * * *"
  # Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  accum-phpbb-board-stats:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - uses: {{REPO_OWNER}}/gh-action--accum-board-stats@master
        with:
          # CAUTION: Beware of double quotes strip in case of usage yaml `>-` operator or even a single-quotted string!
          topic_query_url:          https://phpbb.com/board/search.php?keywords=\"{{TOPIC_KEYWORDS}}\"&terms=all&author={{TOPIC_AUTHOR}}&fid%5B%5D=6&sc=0&sf=titleonly&sr=topics&sk=i&sd=d&st=0&ch=1&t=0&submit=Search
          replies_sed_regexp:       s/.*class=\"posts\"[^0-9]*([0-9.]+).*/\1/p
          views_sed_regexp:         s/.*class=\"views\"[^0-9]*([0-9.]+).*/\1/p

          curl_flags: >-
            -v
            -H 'Cache-Control: no-cache'

          deps_repo_owner:          {{REPO_OWNER}}
          deps_repo_branch:         master
          deps_repo_read_token:     ${{ github.token }}

          commit_msg_entity:        my-board-1

          output_repo_owner:        {{REPO_OWNER}}
          output_repo:              {{REPO}}--phpbb-stats
          output_repo_branch:       master
          output_repo_dir:          traffic/board/phpbb
          output_repo_write_token:  ${{ secrets.READ_STATS_TOKEN }}

          flags: >-
            ENABLE_PRINT_INITIAL_ENV_INTO_STDOUT=1

          env: >-
            ENABLE_GENERATE_CHANGELOG_FILE=1
            CHANGELOG_FILE=changelog.txt
            ENABLE_PRINT_CURL_RESPONSE_ON_ERROR=1
            ENABLE_COMMIT_MESSAGE_DATE_WITH_TIME=1            # insert the time string in format HH:MMZ additionally after the date in each commit message
            ENABLE_COMMIT_MESSAGE_WITH_WORKFLOW_RUN_NUMBER=1  # insert the workflow run number after date/time prefix in each commit message
            ENABLE_GITHUB_ACTIONS_RUN_URL_PRINT_TO_CHANGELOG=1
            ENABLE_REPO_STATS_COMMITS_URL_PRINT_TO_CHANGELOG=1
          #  ENABLE_YAML_DIFF_PRINT_AFTER_EDIT=1
          #  ENABLE_YAML_DIFF_PRINT_BEFORE_PATCH=1
          #  ERROR_ON_EMPTY_CHANGES_WITHOUT_ERRORS=1
          #  CONTINUE_ON_INVALID_INPUT=1
          #  CONTINUE_ON_EMPTY_CHANGES=1

Note You can use secrets.READ_STATS_TOKEN instead of secrets.WRITE_STATS_TOKEN as long as both repositories under the same repository owner.

Warning You must use different values for deps_repo_owner and output_repo_owner if respective repositories actually under different repository owners.

Note See REUSE section for details if you have multiple repositories and want to store all GitHub workflow scripts (.github/workflows/*.yml) in a single repository.

Dependencies

• https://github.com/andry81-devops/gh-workflow

Known Issues

https://github.com/andry81-devops/gh-known-issues#known-issues

Last known issues updates

https://github.com/andry81-devops/gh-known-issues#last-known-issues-updates

Copyright and License

Code and documentation copyright 2021 Andrey Dibrov. Code released under MIT License