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Update your dev.to articles into your Github profile

JackTT on September 14, 2023

In this article, I'll share you how to update your latest articles on dev.to into your Github profile. What is Github profile GitHub ...

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Barry Michael Doyle • Sep 21 '23 • Edited

Awesome article!

It's probably worth noting for those who don't know, the update-articles.yml is a cron job that is set to run everyday 0:15 AM. So don't expect your GitHub profile to be updated immediately... You can obviously tweak that at the start to just check that it is working sooner rather than waiting overnight ;)

ruthmoog • Sep 14 '23

Really cool using jobs for updating the articles. 👍

Sebastian Wessel • Sep 14 '23

Thanks for this!
I added it, and it works as you can see here on my profile

Barry Michael Doyle • Sep 23 '23

Just incase this catches anyone else out...

If your main branch is called 'master' instead of 'main', be sure to update that in the cron job, that caught me out :P

JackTT • Sep 23 '23

Thank you.

Tanushree Aggarwal • Sep 14 '23

Nice stuff! will definitely try this out!

tharos70 • Sep 18 '23

Thanks a lot! It looks like something I was looking for!

Kumar Kalyan • Sep 14 '23

Great article definitely gonna try this out

Je Phiri • Sep 15 '23

Great

Retiago Drago • Sep 14 '23

thanks I will probably use it now
can you do it for Medium too? 😁

JackTT • Sep 14 '23

Of course, I will do it soon!

Retiago Drago • Sep 14 '23

we will be waiting until then
I might wanna tinker it later 😀

Yeom suyun • Sep 17 '23

I think it would be really cool to use GitHub Actions to update the README in real time, even for library code.
However, I'm not a fan of dev.to's default thumbnails, so I think it would be essential to include an image if I'm going to connect dev.to posts to my GitHub profile.

JackTT • Sep 17 '23

You can do it by placing your image in data/images/default-thumbnail.png

Godot • Sep 15 '23

It is giving me this error.

Error: .github#L1
No event triggers defined in on

What might've caused it?

JackTT • Sep 15 '23

Could you share your repo?

Godot • Sep 15 '23

This is the profile
This is the profile repository for the Readme

JackTT • Sep 16 '23

Please update this block:

on:
 schedule:
  - cron: '15 0 * * *'

Abdikhaliq Mohamoud • Sep 19 '23

Can it work with Substack?

JackTT • Sep 19 '23

I've written an ArticleService interface that you can implement for data sources. If Substack has an API, I will do it for you.

Godot • Sep 14 '23

The cron will run once every day right? Also would this work on Github organization page? ie. something like this.

JackTT • Sep 14 '23

Regarding cron, you can define it as needed, such as every 6 hours, every 1 hour, or even every 5 minutes.
As for a GitHub organization page, I think it's the same as a personal page.