Cover photo by Kate Stone Matheson on Unsplash
When I saw Tim Burgan's awesome community chess game, I knew I had to do something with similar logic (so, something interactive in my profile readme). I started thinking and realized that the world has too few cat pictures (like, is there ever too much?) and the idea of my own (virtual) cat was born.
Here you have it - go to my profile and pet my cat! She loves hoomans, and petting. Like a lot.
My Workflow
There are two different workflows - one for updating what the cat is doing every hour and one for whenever someone pets the cat (meaning that they submit an issue with a certain title). After some content editing, the new text will be updated to the <!-- Cat Widget --> area of README.
The structure for the workflows is pretty much similar:
- Check out the repo and set env vars
- Use node and install dependencies
- Run the script for the action to be performed (so, either do the hourly update or pet the cat)
- Auto commit the changed README with stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4 -action.
My Workflow
There are two different workflows - one for updating what the cat is doing every hour and one for whenever someone pets the cat (meaning that they submit an issue with a certain title). After some content editing, the new text will be updated to the <!-- Cat Widget --> area of README.
The structure for the workflows is pretty much similar:
- Check out the repo and set env vars
- Use node and install dependencies
- Run the script for the action to be performed (so, either do the hourly update or pet the cat)
- Auto commit the changed README with stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4 -action.
Here are the yaml-files:
name: Update cat
on:
schedule:
- cron: "*/60 * * * *"
jobs:
update:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Set env vars
run: |
echo ::set-env name=REPOSITORY::${{ github.repository }}
- name: Use Node.js
uses: actions/setup-node@v1
with:
node-version: "12.x"
- name: Install node modules
run: npm install
- name: Update cat
run: npm start
env:
API_KEY: ${{ secrets.API_KEY }}
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4
with:
commit_user_name: github-actions[bot]
commit_user_email: github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
commit_author: Actions <github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
commit_message: "Hourly update :cat:"
and
name: Pet cat
on:
issues:
types: [opened]
jobs:
pet:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Use Node.js
if: startsWith(github.event.issue.title, 'pet-')
uses: actions/setup-node@v1
with:
node-version: "12.x"
- name: Install node modules
if: startsWith(github.event.issue.title, 'pet-')
run: npm install
- name: Set env vars
if: startsWith(github.event.issue.title, 'pet-')
run: |
echo ::set-env name=REPOSITORY::${{ github.repository }}
echo ::set-env name=EVENT_ISSUE_NUMBER::${{ github.event.issue.number }}
echo ::set-env name=EVENT_USER_LOGIN::${{ github.event.issue.user.login }}
- name: Update cat
if: startsWith(github.event.issue.title, 'pet-')
run: npm start
env:
API_KEY: ${{ secrets.API_KEY }}
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4
if: startsWith(github.event.issue.title, 'pet-')
with:
commit_user_name: github-actions[bot]
commit_user_email: github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com
commit_author: Actions <github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
commit_message: "@${{ github.event.issue.user.login }} petted the cat"
Submission Category:
Wacky Wildcards
Link to Code
Heippa! 👋 (Hello in Finnish 🇫🇮)
Short about me:
- I'm software developer and accessibility specialist
- I work at Oura Health
- I blog and speak at meetups and conferences
- When not coding or sharing my knowledge, I play ultimate frisbee and explore the world by foot and a kayak.
You can find more about me from my website.
Mau 🐱
There's a (virtual) cat living in this repo! Right now she's craving for lemons
Happiness
She loves hooomans, and petting. This is how happy she is right now:
💖 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤
Happiness level: 10/100
If you want to pet her, you can do it by clicking this link.
Last times she's been petted:
| Date | User |
|---|---|
| 04/03/2024 | @ElaFinIta |
| 29/02/2024 | @Katia-Emilia |
| 12/02/2024 | @ElaFinIta |
| 05/02/2024 | @jorgedotcom |
| 23/01/2024 | @seedlit |
The pictures are from the Cat Api
Additional Resources
The pictures are from the Cat Api
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