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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 ❤️

KushalTanna24 • Jun 3 '22

Work fine.! Here is mine - KushalTanna24

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)

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 😄

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**

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

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.

Bhumesh Polaswar • Oct 17 '21

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

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.

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/

An Nguyễn Phước • May 31 '22

How to auto build workflow everyday

seamy • Apr 8

Thanks :)

Aditya Mangal • Jul 22 '21

Awesome Tutorial! 🐍

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?

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 😄

VivekS. • Oct 2 '21

Awesome!

wkylin.w • May 1 '22

Here's mine:
github.com/wkylin

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

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

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.