GitHub Profile Readme Topics Action

📌 GitHub Action to update GitHub profile README.md with categorized repos based on their Topics

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Inputs

• TOPICS: list of topics to categorize repos by
• EMAIL: git user email address
• USERNAME: OPTIONAL; git username; defaults to repository owner
• REPOSITORY: OPTIONAL; the repository to update its readme; defaults to current repository

Features

• Aggregates all user source repos (not forked or archived), and group them by specified provided Topics
• Sort results based on number of Stars
• Calculate relative time passed since last update
• Update the target repository README with the generated content

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Instructions

• Add this comment somewhere in your README.md. You can find an example here.

<!--START_SECTION:topics-->
<!--END_SECTION:topics-->

• Create a workflow file.

.github/workflows/readme-topics.yml

name: readme-topics
run-name: Update README.md with repos categorized by topic
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 0 * * 0"
  workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
  generate-topics:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: metaory/github-readme-topics-action@v1
        env:
          GH_PAT: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} # your personal-access-tokens with write permission
        with:
          # USERNAME: metaory # OPTIONAL; the committer username, defaults to repository owner (GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER)
          # REPOSITORY: playground # OPTIONAL; the repository name to update its readme, defaults to current repository (GITHUB_REPOSITORY)
          EMAIL: [email protected] # REQUIRED; the committer email address
          TOPICS: |- # REQUIRED; list of topics to group by
            api
            automation
            challenge
            cli
            github-actions
            npm-package
            theme

The above job runs every one week, you can change it as you wish based on the cron syntax.

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TODO

• format relative date (update column)
• add links (name column)
• publish a tag release