Automatically Link New Blogs In Your Github Profile
What's up Devs! Did you know if you have a blog, you can automate posting links to new blogs in your GitHub profile? Well today you're going to learn how.
First off, credit to gautamkrishnar for his blog-post-workflow because we take advantage of that.
Now, we are going to assume you've already got a github profile setup (meaning the README.md in https://github.com/
The only thing we're going to need to add to your README.md is:
This is the hook the blog-post-workflow is going to look for, and it's going to add the list of posts between them. The 'YOUTUBE-VIDEOS-LIST' is basically a variable. You could make this "BLOG-POST-LIST" or really whatever your hear desires. We tell the workflow what to look for in the .yml file we're about to setup.
Back in our portfolio repo (https://github.com/YourUsername/YourUsername) click on 'Add file' -> 'Create new file'. We're actually creating a directory called .github with another directory inside it called workflows and finally a file called (Mine is called update-youtube.yml, but if your updating blog posts something like 'update-blogs.yml' should suffice).
Inside that yml file, you'll include what you find here - https://github.com/ghughes13/ghughes13/blob/main/.github/workflows/update-youtube.yml
Change the two name properties to something appropriate. What they are doesn't really matter. What does matter is what we have in the comment_tag_name. This should be what we used earlier (in my case: YOUTUBE-VIDEOS-LIST. It should be capitalized exactly like we wrote it).
The other thing we need to change is the feed_list. This is where our data will come from. It needs to be an RSS feed. Popular feeds are listed in the blog-post-workflow repo here.
After that's committed and saved, all that's left is to run the action. It runs on it's own every hour, but if we just go to 'Actions' -> The name of your workflow -> Run workflow and your workflow should run. (It will also run ever hour and add any new blogs you create.)