A dynamic GitHub profile with GitHub Actions

Thanks Yannick Chenot for the article How to Build a Dynamic GitHub Profile with GitHub Actions and PHP! It describes how to set up automatic updating of links to the latest blog posts in the GitHub profile using GitHub Actions. I will not retell the article, and you can read about the profile on GitHub here.

Here is my python solution

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


url = "https://vostbur.github.io"
main_page = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url).content, "html.parser")

content = f"### Last posts from [blog]({url}):\n\n"
for article_div in main_page.find_all("div", {"class": "mb-4"}):
    article_url = article_div.find("a", href=True)
    content += f"  - [{article_url.text}]({article_url['href']})\n"

with open("README.md", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    f.write(content)

Yaml file for GitHub Actions

name: Update README.md

on:
push:
workflow_dispatch:
schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'

jobs:
build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: Clone repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
    
    - name: Install python dependencies
        run: pip3 install requests bs4

    - name: Update README.md
        run: python3 get_last_posts.py

    - name: Push changes
        uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4
        with:
        commit_message: Updated latest blog posts

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