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Add members to the .md file using github action

My Workflow

This workflow read all the files in members folder and add in a table in the Members.md file it runs on PUSH event.
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Workflow:

name: Add members to .md file

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:

      - name: checkout repo content
        uses: actions/checkout@v2 # checkout the repository content to github runner

      - name: setup python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
        with:
          python-version: '3.7.7' # install the python version needed


      - name: execute py script # run sj-gobierno.py to get the latest data
        run: python add.py

      - name: Commit files
        run: |
          git config --local user.email "github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
          git config --local user.name "github-actions[bot]"
          git commit -m "Added member" -a
      - name: Push changes
        uses: ad-m/github-push-action@master
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          branch: ${{ github.ref }}
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add.py :


import os

users = []
data = '<td align="center"><a href="https://github.com/{username}"><img src="https://github.com/{username}.png" width="100px;" alt=""/><br /><sub><b>{name}</b></sub></a></td>\n'
for filename in os.listdir("members"):
    with open(os.path.join("members", filename), 'r') as f:
       text = f.readlines()
       users.append({"name":text[1][7:-1],"username":text[2][11:-1]})


with open("Members.md","w") as f: 
    f.write("<table>\n")
    for i in range(len(users)):
        if(i%10 == 0):
            f.write("<tr>\n")
        f.write(data.format(name=users[i]["name"],username=users[i]["username"]))
        if((i+1)%10 == 0):
            f.write("</tr>\n")
    f.write("</table>")
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Additional Resources / Info

We are using this action in BauddhikGeeks

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