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Dear All, this is my second entry for #ActionsHackathon Echo the Release - this GitHub Action helps you to notify your Alexa device if there is a new release for the projects that you have configured.

Submission Category:

Interesting IoT

Yaml File

QAInsights / Echo-The-Release

This GitHub action notifies your Echo device if there is a new release of your favorite GitHub repos that you have been following.

Echo-The-Release

This GitHub action notifies your Echo device if there is a new release of your favorite GitHub repos that you have been following.

How to use this GitHub Action?

Following are the prerequisites to configure the notifications.

• Compatible Echo device such as Echo, Echo Show etc.
• Free account at Thomptronics. Follow the steps mentioned here to integrate your Echo and Notify Me skill.
• List of GitHub repositories that you are following and their API should expose the release details. E.g. https://api.github.com/repos/QAInsights/Sample-Repo/releases/latest is exposing the release, tag etc.

Steps to configure this action:

• Fork this repo.
• Create a folder for each repository that you need to be alerted. Inside each folder, create echo.txt file.
• Create a Repo scoped token and configure under your secret ECHO_KEY
• Configure Notify Me API key under your secret ECHO_TOKEN
• Configure the below YAML to suite your needs. You can add multiple repositories. Recommended count…

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name: Echo the Release
on: 
  schedule:
    - cron: "*/1 * * * *"
jobs:
  get-version:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      with:
        token: ${{ secrets.ECHO_TOKEN }}
    - name: Repo 1
      run: |
        t=$(curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/<UserName>/<RepoName>/releases/latest | jq -r ".name")
        if [ ${t} != null ]
        then
          echo ${t} > Sample-Repo/echo.txt
        fi

    - name: Repo 2
      run: |
        t=$(curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/<UserName>/<RepoName>/releases/latest | jq -r ".name")
        if [ ${t} != null ]
        then
          echo ${t} > Another-Sample-Repo/echo.txt
        fi

    - name: Check for modified files
      id: git-check
      run: | 
        git diff --name-only | xargs -L1 dirname | uniq > changes.txt
        while read p; do
          if [ $p != "." ]
          then
            k=${{ secrets.ECHO_KEY }}
            curl https://api.notifymyecho.com/v1/NotifyMe -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"notification":"New release is now available for '"$p"'.","accessCode":"'"$k"'"}'
          fi
        done <changes.txt        
        echo "" > changes.txt

    - name: Commit latest release version
      run: |
        git config --global user.name '<>'
        git config --global user.email '<>'
        git commit -am "New release version"
        git push

Additional Resources / Info

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