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How to enable GitHub Actions on your Profile README for a snake-eating contribution graph 🐍

Michelle Mannering on June 28, 2021

Lots of people have been talking about and sharing their GitHub Profile READMEs. It was a project we launched last year and developers are loving i...
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KushalTanna24

Work fine.! Here is mine - KushalTanna24

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Michael jentsch

Great tutorial! Works for me.
Here's mine - github.com/msoftware

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Gustavo Martins

Awsome! How did you change the background-color?

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Michelle Mannering

I didn't change the background colour. It's a .png/.svg image, meaning the background is transparent. It looks dark on mine because I have dark mode enabled on GitHub. You can enable it by clicking Settings --> Appearance --> choosing your mode.

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Gustavo Martins

Thank you! actually I was using the .gif version, so I switched to the .svg one and voilá

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Michelle Mannering

Awesome! Glad to be of help 😄

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seamy • Edited

Thanks Michelle Mannering for your (dev.to/mishmanners/how-to-enable-g...) topic.

If other users wish to utilize this, kindly modify this topic;

1-Use this (thanks Platane github.com/Platane) file;

github.com/1SeaMy/1SeaMy/blob/main...

2-Use this;

![snake gif](https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_USERNAME/blob/output/github-contribution-grid-snake-dark.svg)

or this

![snake gif](https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_USERNAME/blob/output/github-contribution-grid-snake.svg)

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BAayah

Thank you so much! I tried to change in settings 'Contribution' to 'include my private contributions' but anyway my Readme profile doesn't show My Contributions. Could you please help me with this?
github.com/BAayah/BAayah

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L3on06

Hello everyone, before proceeding, please navigate to 'Settings -> Actions -> General -> Workflow Permissions' in your README.md file and select 'Read and Write' permissions. This is important because if you have other permissions selected, it may result in errors.

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Jakob • Edited

Getting this error when I try to run workflow and after it fails:
Node.js 12 actions are deprecated. Please update the following actions to use Node.js 16: actions/checkout@v2. For more information see: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-09-22-github-actions-all-actions-will-begin-running-on-node16-instead-of-node12/.

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Shuvajit

go to setting -> action -> and check the workflow as read and write
(run build again) hopefully you will not get error

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Bhumesh Polaswar

Great worked for me. See github.com/bpolaswar
Thanks.

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Ariafatah

github.com/ariafatah0711/ariafatah...

Check my github and change this file because I tried the file above only as much as it appears if you want to use the full one I use. And don't forget to give stars😁

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Ariafatah

If the action fails, you can go to repo settings, click action, then select general, and look at the bottom where it says read and write.

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Hoàng Anh Tiến • Edited

It does not work for me. Can someone help me?
github.com/hoangtien2k3qx1

Error:
actions/checkout@v2, platane/snk@master, ad-m/github-push-action@master, and crazy-max/ghaction-github-pages@v2.1.3 are not allowed to be used in hoangtien2k3qx1/hoangtien2k3qx1. Actions in this workflow must be: within a repository owned by hoangtien2k3qx1.

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Laura • Edited

Hi, i did everything right and even got the "build" status. But no output branch was created... why is that? Can someone help me? github.com/laurasiiia

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Michelle Mannering

I assume you're working off this folder: github.com/laurasiiia/laurasiiia/b...

Since you've got a newer repo (mine account was set up a number of years ago), you have the default branch set to "main". You might need to change the code to be "main" instead of "master".

I created a PR for you: github.com/laurasiiia/laurasiiia/p...
(run it and see if that works)... it might not but worth a shot. Feel free to jump in other people 😄

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Aditya Mangal

Awesome Tutorial! 🐍

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VivekS.

Awesome!

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Josiel de Castro Goudinho • Edited

It does not work for me. Can someone help me?
github.com/zieldecastro
instagram.com/zieldecastro/

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Shasank Periwal • Edited

Great tutorial!
But can anyone help me, its not showing all my contributions
github.com/shasank27/shasank27

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Michelle Mannering • Edited

Hey Shasank. I can't see it on your profile, but to show all contributions, you need to make sure all contributions are turned on your profile. You can do this in your settings:

github.com/YOUR_PROFILE --> Settings --> Profile

Then scroll down to "Contributions" and check the box that says "Include private contributions on my profile".

Hope that helps.

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Hudson Nguyen

I got error "The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 128". Even though I tried to generate a new personal access token, it didn't work. Anybody has any solution for this error?

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An Nguyễn Phước

How to auto build workflow everyday

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wkylin.w

Here's mine:
github.com/wkylin

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seamy

Thanks :)

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Hollow Dev

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Mine looks like this, someone help me??

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Kush

Mine looks the same.

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Parnia • Edited

works great :)))) Here is mine github.com/Parnia-mohammadi

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Abdul Rahman

Its not working
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Hoàng Anh Tiến

It does not work for me. Can someone help me?
github.com/hoangtien2k3qx1

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Aditya Thakekar

works great. thanks a ton.

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Julia Leal

Thank You for the tutorial! Here is mine - github.com/devJuliaLeal

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Wisnu Akbara

here's mine - github.com/wisnuaero

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Tyler Bray

Thanks for making this guide!

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Matheus Roichman

Mine is not showing all the contributions :(
github.com/MatheusRoichman/Matheus...

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Mayukhmali Das

Works great !!!!!!!! Here's mine

github.com/Smartmayukh

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Tahmid Abir

Do we need to run the action everyday after commit? or it will auto load,
Btw I have made mine, thanks for the detailed writings, here's mine- github.com/tahmidabir

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Nasin Ayenul Akash

I tried everything, it's not working. link
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Ichchha Gupta

Can you please help me in figuring out where to find my actions file mentioned in step 1, so that I can add the required code.

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Michelle Mannering

Actions is a feature you'll need to enable for your repo. When you go to your repo, you'll notice a tab called "Actions" that should be next to the "Pull requests" tab. Click the "Actions" tab then you can setup Actions from there.