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Display and auto-update RSS feed in your GitHub Profile README

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Usage
Inputs
Outputs
Examples
Remarks

Usage

First, add flag comments to where you want in your document:

### Latest Posts
<!-- feed start -->
<!-- feed end -->

Then add following steps to your workflow:

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v4
  - uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1
    with:
      url: 'https://note.sarisia.cc/index.xml'
      file: 'README.md'
  - uses: sarisia/actions-commit@master

Or commit manually...

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v4
  - uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1
    with:
      url: 'https://note.sarisia.cc/index.xml'
      file: 'README.md'
  - run: |
      git config --global user.name "${{ github.actor }}"
      git config --global user.email "${{ github.actor }}@users.noreply.github.com"
      git add .
      git commit -m "docs: update feed" || true
      git push

The result looks like:

Latest Posts

Aug 21 - C.UTF-8 とは何だったのか
Aug 17 - RSS フィードを GitHub プロフィールに表示する
Aug 10 - fish スクリプトのデバッグ
Aug 08 - Arch Linux Install Battle
Aug 05 - Linuxbrew で emscripten を導入する

Inputs

Key	Required	Value	Default	Description
`url`	Yes	String		URL of RSS feed (XML)
`file`	Yes	String		Path to document file to process. Can be relative path from repository root, or absolute path of Actions Runner.
`sort`		Boolean	`true`	Sort feed entries by date in decending order.
`max_entry`		Number	`5`	Number of feed entries to show
`format`		String	`- ${monthshort} ${02day} - [${title}](${url})`	Feed entry format string. See Formatting for details.
`start_flag`		String	`<!-- feed start -->`	Flag string to declare start of feed block
`end_flag`		String	`<!-- feed end -->`	Flag string to declare end of feed block
`locale`		String	`en-US`	Locale used to format date NEEDS ADDITIONAL CONFIGURATION. See remarks
`timezone`		String	`UTC`	Timezone (e.g. `Asia/Tokyo`) used to format date
`nowrite`		Boolean	`false`	Do not write results to the file specified as `file` input
`retry`		Number	`3`	Number of retries for fetching feeds
`retry_backoff`		Number	`5`	Retry backoff (seconds)
`ensure_all`		Boolean	`false`	Ensure that all feeds specified as `url` input are fetched correctly (== does not skip fetch errors)
`allow_empty`		Boolean	`false`	Don't fail action if feed has no items

Formatting

Examples below uses following RSS feed item:

<item>
  <title>Blog Post</title>
  <link>https://blog.example.com/blog-post</link>
  <pubDate>Sat, 05 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
</item>

Variables

Key	Example	Note
`title`	`Blog Post`
`url`	`https://blog.example.com/blog-post`
`guid`	`https://blog.example.com/blog-post`	Maybe a URL, maybe not. Check your feed.
`year`	`2020`	`timezone` affects
`month`	`8`	`timezone` affects.
`monthshort`	`Aug`	`timezone` affects.
`monthlong`	`August`	`timezone` affects.
`day`	`5`	`timezone` affects.
`date`	`8/5/2020, 12:00:00 AM`	`timezone` affects.

For details, see src/format.ts

Padding

You can padding variables with zeros or spaces.

Format	Output	Description
`${2day}`	`5`	Pads to length 2 with spaces
`${05month}`	`00008`	Pads to length 5 with zeros

Outputs

changed: Whether the document is changed while this actions's run. 1 if changed, 0 else.

items: Raw feed entry from rssparser.

[
  {
    "title":"C.UTF-8 とは何だったのか",
    "link":"https://note.sarisia.cc/entry/what-is-c-utf8/","pubDate":"Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000",
    "content":"TL;DR 全ての Linux ディス...",
    "guid":"https://note.sarisia.cc/entry/what-is-c-utf8/",
    "isoDate":"2020-08-21T00:00:00.000Z"
  },
  ...
]

newlines: New lines inserted to the document specified as file. Lines are joined with \n.

<!-- feed start -->
- Aug 10 - [fish スクリプトのデバッグ](https://note.sarisia.cc/entry/debugging-fish-script/)
- Aug 08 - [Arch Linux Install Battle](https://note.sarisia.cc/entry/arch-linux-install-battle/)
- Aug 05 - [Linuxbrew で emscripten を導入する](https://note.sarisia.cc/entry/linuxbrew-emscripten/)
- Jul 29 - [UWP アプリは localhost へ接続できない](https://note.sarisia.cc/entry/uwp-localhost/)
- Jul 22 - [Linuxbrew で入れた Go でビルドしたバイナリは可搬性が無い](https://note.sarisia.cc/entry/linuxbrew-go/)
<!-- feed end -->

result: Result document with feed lines inserted. Lines are joined with \n

# Actions Readme Feed

Display RSS feed in your [GitHub Profile README](https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/managing-your-profile-readme)
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Examples

Other sources (e.g. Qiita)

Not only Qiita, you can use any RSS feeds which rss-parser supports.

- uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1
  with:
    url: 'https://qiita.com/sarisia/feed'
    file: 'README.md'

Aug 24 - GitHubプロフィールにブログやQiitaの最新記事を表示する
Jul 07 - ローカルでも CI でも使える卒論ビルド環境
Jun 21 - Go Module Mirror から壊れたパッケージが落ちてくる
Jun 06 - WSL2 Docker が PC のディスクを圧迫する

Update GitHub Profile README automatically

Make your workflow with schedule trigger.

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 */6 * * *'

jobs:
  readme:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1
        id: feed
        with:
          url: 'https://note.sarisia.cc/index.xml'
          file: 'README.md'
      - if: ${{ steps.feed.outputs.changed == true }}
        uses: sarisia/actions-commit@master

Using `changed` output

changed output can be used directly in the if conditional.

steps:
  - uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1
    id: feed
    with:
      url: 'https://blog.example.com/feed.xml'
      file: 'README.md'
  - if: ${{ steps.feed.outputs.changed == true }}
    run: echo "changed!"

Multiple feeds (merged)

You can pass multiple URLs to url and get results with all feeds merged & sorted by date!

- name: merged feed
  uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1
  with:
    file: 'README.md'
    url: |
      https://note.sarisia.cc/index.xml
      https://qiita.com/sarisia/feed
      https://zenn.dev/sarisia/feed

Multiple feeds (separated)

Make sure to change start_flag and end_flag for each feed.

- name: blog
  uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1
  with:
    url: 'https://note.sarisia.cc/index.xml'
    file: 'README.md'
    start_flag: "<!-- blog start -->"
    end_flag: "<!-- blog end -->"
- name: qiita
  uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1
  with:
    url: 'https://qiita.com/sarisia/feed'
    file: 'README.md'
    start_flag: "<!-- qiita start -->"
    end_flag: "<!-- qiita end -->"

### Blog
<!-- blog start -->
<!-- blog end -->

### Qiita
<!-- qiita start -->
<!-- qiita end -->

Using Deploy Key or Personal Access Token

actions/checkout action can handle this.

For deploy key:

- uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    ssh-key: ${{ secrets.DEPLOY_KEY }}
- uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1

For Personal Access Token:

- uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
- uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1

Remarks

`locale` option needs additional operation

Setting locale option is not working correctly due to the limitation of Node.js shipped with GitHub Actions runner.

If you want this to work, you need to set up ICU data set manually.

You can use the helper action sarisia/setup-icu to do this:

steps:
  - uses: sarisia/setup-icu@v1
  - uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1
    with:
      url: https://note.sarisia.cc/index.xml
      file: README.md
      locale: 'ja-JP'

Also you can do this manually...

steps:
  - run: npm install icu4c-data@64l
  - uses: sarisia/actions-readme-feed@v1
    with:
      url: https://note.sarisia.cc/index.xml
      file: README.md
      locale: 'ja-JP'
    env:
      NODE_ICU_DATA: node_modules/icu4c-data

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Actions Readme Feed

Usage

Latest Posts

Inputs

Formatting

Variables

Padding

Outputs

Examples

Other sources (e.g. Qiita)

Update GitHub Profile README automatically

Using `changed` output

Multiple feeds (merged)

Multiple feeds (separated)

Using Deploy Key or Personal Access Token

Remarks

`locale` option needs additional operation

Files

README.md

Latest commit

History

README.md

File metadata and controls

Actions Readme Feed

Usage

Latest Posts

Inputs

Formatting

Variables

Padding

Outputs

Examples

Other sources (e.g. Qiita)

Update GitHub Profile README automatically

Using changed output

Multiple feeds (merged)

Multiple feeds (separated)

Using Deploy Key or Personal Access Token

Remarks

locale option needs additional operation

Using `changed` output

`locale` option needs additional operation