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

Michelle Duke 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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Platane • Aug 21 • Edited

Hi, First of all thanks for the precise tutorial!

There were a few changes in the action (mostly to adapt to github api), I had to change some parameters and bump the version.

Unfortunately a lot of people use the edge version ( with the tag #master ). It's a bit of a mess but the result is that this version is deprecated and can no longer work without adding some modification from the user (adding a github token as param)

The recommended usage is now this declaration:

- uses: Platane/snk/svg-only@v3
  with:
    github_user_name: ${{ github.repository_owner }}
    outputs: |
      dist/github-snake.svg

Check the readme for details about the new options

Mohit Arora • Sep 24

Finally something worked :D

Michelle Duke • Sep 25

Thanks for putting this together ❤️

seamy • Apr 8 • 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)

KushalTanna24 • Jun 3 '22

Work fine.! Here is mine - KushalTanna24

Michael jentsch • Jul 9 '21

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

Gustavo Martins • Sep 3 '21

Awsome! How did you change the background-color?

Michelle Duke • Sep 3 '21

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.

Gustavo Martins • Sep 3 '21

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

Michelle Duke • Sep 3 '21

Awesome! Glad to be of help 😄

BAayah • Jan 11

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

Jakob • Jan 20 '23 • 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/.

Shuvajit • Feb 1 '23

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

L3on06 • Feb 16 '23

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.

Unknown • May 27

I specially created account to say thank you I almost wasted my 3 hours in wandering around to fix issue and you saved my life.** Thank you**

Hoàng Anh Tiến • Jan 29 '23 • 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.

Bhumesh Polaswar • Oct 17 '21

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

Ariafatah • Sep 18 '23

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😁

Ariafatah • Sep 18 '23

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.

wkylin.w • May 1 '22

Here's mine:
github.com/wkylin

VivekS. • Oct 2 '21

Awesome!

An Nguyễn Phước • May 31 '22

How to auto build workflow everyday

seamy • Apr 8

Thanks :)

Hudson Nguyen • Jan 8 '23

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?

Aditya Mangal • Jul 22 '21

Awesome Tutorial! 🐍

Shasank Periwal • Aug 8 '21 • Edited

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

Michelle Duke • Sep 6 '21 • 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.

Josiel de Castro Goudinho • Sep 14 '21 • Edited

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

Nirav Prajapati • Dec 16 '22

Awesome My github profile

Laura • Jan 2 '22 • 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

Michelle Duke • Jan 4 '22

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 😄

Puja Kumari • Dec 10

Finally done. - github.com/Pujakumari1202

Abdul Rahman • Feb 26

Its not working

Parnia • Feb 19 • Edited

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

Hollow Dev • Sep 20 '23

Mine looks like this, someone help me??

Kush • Dec 22 '23

Mine looks the same.

Hoàng Anh Tiến • Jan 29 '23

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

Nasin Ayenul Akash • Jan 28 '23

I tried everything, it's not working. link

Julia Leal • Jan 11 '23

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

Wisnu Akbara • Dec 7 '22

here's mine - github.com/wisnuaero

Tyler Bray • Nov 9 '22

Thanks for making this guide!

Matheus Roichman • Nov 2 '22

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

Mayukhmali Das • Jul 1 '22

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

github.com/Smartmayukh

Tahmid Abir • Jun 18 '22

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

Aditya Thakekar • Dec 24 '21

works great. thanks a ton.

Ichchha Gupta • Dec 14 '21

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.

Michelle Duke • Dec 15 '21

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.

Puja Kumari • Dec 10

Finally worked. - github.com/Pujakumari1202