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Nabil Alamin
Nabil Alamin

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Get a custom Github octocat in your README

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My Workflow

Octo-my-readme is a github action that takes the github octocat and combines it with your most used language in all your repos then displays it in your README.md or wherever you place it.

 

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GitHub logo arndom / octo-my-readme-workflow

Combines the GitHub Octocat with the logo of the most used language in your repositories which can then be displayed in your special README or wherever.

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How to use

  1. Star this repo 😉
  2. Go to your special repository(repo with name the same as git username).
  3. Create a folder named .github and create a workflows folder inside it, if it doesn't exist.
  4. Create a new file named octo-lang.yml with the following contents inside the workflow folder:
name: Octo my README  on: # schedule: # Run workflow automatically # - cron: '0 * * * *' # Runs every hour, on the hour workflow_dispatch: # Run workflow manually (without waiting for the cron to be called), through the Github Actions Workflow page directly jobs: get_lang_gen_octo: runs-on: ubuntu-latest name: Get Language & Generate Ocoto-lang steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v2 - name: Get most used language then generate ocoto lang id: octo-lang uses: arndom/octo-my-readme-workflow@v1
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  1. Commit and trigger it manually, after the run, a my-ocoto-lang.png file…
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 name: Octo my README on: # schedule: # Run workflow automatically # - cron: '0 * * * *' # Runs every hour, on the hour workflow_dispatch: # Run workflow manually (without waiting for the cron to be called), through the Github Actions Workflow page directly jobs: get_lang_gen_octo: runs-on: ubuntu-latest name: Get Language & Generate Ocoto-lang steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v2 - name: Get most used language then generate ocoto lang id: octo-lang uses: arndom/octo-my-readme-workflow@v1
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Additional Resources / Info

This is my first github action and I was stuck for a bit realizing my idea but thanks to existing workflows; blog-post-workflow & github-update-readme and the styling of the octocat by my friend; @Rahnard I was able to make this.

Hope you like it 🤗, Don't forget to leave a star ⭐

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Andy Piper • • Edited

Oh, this is fun! Nice work. You should add a description, link and topics to your repo, too. I can see you’ve used the action on your own GH Profile, looks cool.

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Nabil Alamin •

Thanks, I'll be sure do add those
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