generate-popular-actions

This is a script for generating popular_actions.go.

It does:

• Fetches metadata of popular actions
  • from https://github.com
  • from JSONL file in local
• Generates the fetched data set of metadata
  • as Go source file
  • as JSONL file

Usage

Generate Go source:

go run ./scripts/generate-popular-actions ./popular_actions.go

Detect new releases on GitHub:

go run ./scripts/generate-popular-actions -d

Please see output of -help flag for more details.

The data source file

The data source of the popular actions is defined in popular_actions.json. This file contains an array of each action registry. Each registry is a JSON object containing the following keys:

Key	Description	Example	Required?
slug	GitHub repository slug	"actions/checkout"	Yes
tags	Known release tags	["v1", "v2", "v3", "v4"]	Yes
next	The next release tag. Empty means new version won't be detected	"v5"	No
path	Absolute path to the action from the repository root	"/path/to/action"	No
skip_inputs	Skipping checking inputs of this action or not	true	No
skip_outputs	Skipping checking outputs of this action or not	true	No
file_ext	File extension of action metadata file. The default is "yml"	"yaml"	No

Alternative actions registry JSON file can be used via -r option.