This action query the github api to get starred list of the user and then generates a list ordered by languages.

You can see an example of the output at my own simonecorsi/awesome

• Documentation
  • Requirements
  • Configuration
    • api-token
    • compact-by-topic
    • template-path
• Example workflow

• An empty repository
• A personal github api key

The service can be configured setting the appropriate environment variables or writing an .env file.

The Personal API Access Token is mandatory to fetch stars from the API without incurring in Rate Limits.

You'll have to generate a personal api token and then add

If compact-by-topic is 'true' it will generate another markdown file TOPICS.md whith all stars compacted by their github topics, be aware that this list will be bigger since data is duplicated.

If you don't like the output (default example here ), you can provide your custom template that will be rendered using EJS template engine.

Path provided is relative to your current repository directory, if file is not found it will default.

name: Update awesome list

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

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Awesome generator
        uses: simonecorsi/mawesome@latest
        with:
          api-token: ${{ secrets.API_TOKEN }}
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          github-email: ${{ secrets.USER_EMAIL }}
          github-name: ${{ github.repository_owner }}