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Dear All, this is my second entry for #ActionsHackathon Echo the Release - this GitHub Action helps you to notify your Alexa device if there is a new release for the projects that you have configured.
Submission Category:
Interesting IoT
Yaml File
QAInsights
/
Echo-The-Release
This GitHub action notifies your Echo device if there is a new release of your favorite GitHub repos that you have been following.
Echo-The-Release
This GitHub action notifies your Echo device if there is a new release of your favorite GitHub repos that you have been following.
How to use this GitHub Action?
Following are the prerequisites to configure the notifications.
- Compatible Echo device such as Echo, Echo Show etc.
- Free account at Thomptronics. Follow the steps mentioned here to integrate your Echo and
Notify Meskill. - List of GitHub repositories that you are following and their API should expose the release details. E.g.
https://api.github.com/repos/QAInsights/Sample-Repo/releases/latestis exposing the release, tag etc.
Steps to configure this action:
- Fork this repo.
- Create a folder for each repository that you need to be alerted. Inside each folder, create
echo.txtfile. - Create a Repo scoped token and configure under your secret
ECHO_KEY - Configure Notify Me API key under your secret
ECHO_TOKEN - Configure the below YAML to suite your needs. You can add multiple repositories. Recommended count…
name: Echo the Release
on:
schedule:
- cron: "*/1 * * * *"
jobs:
get-version:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
with:
token: ${{ secrets.ECHO_TOKEN }}
- name: Repo 1
run: |
t=$(curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/<UserName>/<RepoName>/releases/latest | jq -r ".name")
if [ ${t} != null ]
then
echo ${t} > Sample-Repo/echo.txt
fi
- name: Repo 2
run: |
t=$(curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/<UserName>/<RepoName>/releases/latest | jq -r ".name")
if [ ${t} != null ]
then
echo ${t} > Another-Sample-Repo/echo.txt
fi
- name: Check for modified files
id: git-check
run: |
git diff --name-only | xargs -L1 dirname | uniq > changes.txt
while read p; do
if [ $p != "." ]
then
k=${{ secrets.ECHO_KEY }}
curl https://api.notifymyecho.com/v1/NotifyMe -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"notification":"New release is now available for '"$p"'.","accessCode":"'"$k"'"}'
fi
done <changes.txt
echo "" > changes.txt
- name: Commit latest release version
run: |
git config --global user.name '<>'
git config --global user.email '<>'
git commit -am "New release version"
git push
Additional Resources / Info
Thanks to Notify Me
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