Being an opensource enthusiast, I am pleased to announce my first Github Action project as a submission to Github Actions hackathon in Dev.to please bear any mistakes that I may have made.

My Workflow

Scheduled Ping is a Github Action that sets a scheduled time interval to ping at your given URL and show you the response time details using cURL.

Submission Category:

Wacky Wildcards

Yaml File or Link to Code

You can integrate this Action in your workflow using this YAML

name: Scheduled Ping
# This workflow is triggered at a scheduled interval of every 30 minutes
on:
  schedule:
    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string.
    # /30 denotes that it will run once every 30 minutes
    - cron:  '*/30 * * * *'

jobs:
  pinger_job:
    name: A job to ping
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      URL: ${{ secrets.URL }}
    steps:
      - id: ping
        uses: sisodiya2421/pinger@master

For more details on how to set up your URL for Scheduled Ping Action check out the Github Action Repo

name: Scheduled Ping
# This workflow is triggered at a scheduled interval of every 30 minutes
on
  schedule
    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string.
    # /30 denotes that it will run once every 30 minutes
    - cron:  '*/30 * * * *'
jobs
  pinger_job:
    name: A job to ping
    runs-on

Additional Resources / Info

You can make changes to your workflow as per your own requirements like in place of using schedule event as a trigger to your workflow use may use push or pull events.

You also have the flexibility to change the time interval just by using POSIX cron syntax

Here's Link on how to add URL as a secret in your repo.

Check out Scheduled Ping Action at Github Marketplace

It has been a great journey from learning what is Github action to making a custom action of my own. Going through the docs I am pretty much sure the possibilities are endless.