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Contribute List

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Contribute List

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Contribute List

Automation of contributors list in README.md

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Contribute List

              
  uses: akhilmhdh/[email protected]
Learn more about this action in akhilmhdh/contributors-readme-action

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Contributors Forks Stargazers Issues MIT License


Contributors-Readme-Action

Contributors-Readme-Action is a simple GitHub action to automate contributors list in README file. Not only contributors, collborators, bots or any user.

As it uses a GitHub action it's secure and very easy to integrate into your projects. Once added it will automatically add all the repository contributors to your readme in a well-formatted table, including future contributors 😄. Now why would you need a contributors list? Come on man, show some love to the ones who contribute to your project.😉

The contributors list is fetched from GitHub API.

Getting Started

First Step

If you're new to actions, add these to your .github/workflows/main.yml file. If this file does not exist, create one.

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
    contrib-readme-job:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        name: A job to automate contrib in readme
        steps:
            - name: Contribute List
              uses: akhilmhdh/[email protected]
              env:
                  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

That's it!

To add it to your to your existing workflow, append this to your current .yml workflow script.

- uses: akhilmhdh/[email protected]
  env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Second Step

  1. Add a README.md file
  2. Add the below comment inside your README.md where you want it to appear.
<!-- readme: contributors -start -->
<!-- readme: contributors -end -->
  1. Save it, wait for the action to complete and tadaa 😄

But wait!!!

  • What if you wanted to add direct collaborators of a project, no worries
## Collaborators

<!-- readme: collaborators -start -->
<!-- readme: collaborators -end -->

## Contributors

<!-- readme: contributors -start -->
<!-- readme: contributors -end -->
  • Now you decided that you want to join this into one list, no issue
## Contributors

<!-- readme: collaborators,contributors -start -->
<!-- readme: collaborators,contributors -end -->
  • Then you decided to add some github users who are important figure in this project
## Contributors

<!-- readme: <username1>,collaborators,<username2>,contributors -start -->
<!-- readme: <username1>,collaborators,<username3>,contributors -end -->

The order of the list will be given priority. So username1 will appear first collaborators then username2 likewise.(No brackets for usernames)

The subject inside start and end must be same.

Keywords

keywords Definition
contributors contributors of the repo
collaborators contributors of the repo
sponsors sponsors of the repo's user/organization
bots bots of the repo
username any username that you want to add on to the list

Operators

Operators are in a nutshell simple modifiers that can be applied to a list like removing a person from a list. They can be applied accordingly to a keyword like akhilmhdh/- with a / as seperator.

operator Definition Example
/- remove the username from list akhilmhdh/-

Optional parameters

You can add these optional parameters in your action script to modify the appearance of the resulting list.

- name: Contribute List
  uses: akhilmhdh/[email protected]
  with:
      image_size: 100
Option Default Value Description Required
image_size 100(px) Size of square images in the stack false
readme_path README.md Path of the readme file you want to update false
use_username false To use username instead of full name false
columns_per_row 6 Number of columns in a row false
collaborators direct Type of collaborators options: all/direct/outside false
commit_message contrib-readme-action has updated readme Commit message of the github action false
committer_username contrib-readme-bot Username on commit false
committer_email [email protected] Email id of committer false
pr_title_on_protected contributors readme action update Title of the PR that will be created if the branch is protected false

The action will update Readme as PR when the branch is protected, else it will directly commit it.

Outputs

Following outputs are generated on the execution of this action.

Output Value Description
pr_id string Id of the generated PR when the branch is in protected mode.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for getting started with the contribution.

Make sure that you follow CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md while contributing and engaging in the discussions.

When contributing, please first discuss the change you wish to make via an issue on this repository before making the actual change.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments