commit 166f95dc8b032a01fb5bb717783a904734e80193
parent dd58b715bb84a6c1f3dbac747ac5252a029f67b7
Author: Amit Dutta <amitdutta4255@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 21:01:26 +0530
Add script to update README with recent GitHub commits
This script fetches recent commits from a GitHub user and updates the README.md file with the latest commit messages formatted as a markdown list.
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 69 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.github/scripts/update_commits.py b/.github/scripts/update_commits.py
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+import urllib.request
+import json
+import re
+
+USERNAME = "notamitgamer"
+API_URL = f"https://api.github.com/users/{USERNAME}/events/public"
+
+def fetch_recent_commits():
+ try:
+ # Create a request object with a User-Agent (GitHub API requires it)
+ req = urllib.request.Request(API_URL)
+ req.add_header('User-Agent', f'{USERNAME}-readme-updater')
+
+ with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as response:
+ data = json.loads(response.read().decode())
+
+ commits = []
+ for event in data:
+ # We only care about events where you pushed code
+ if event['type'] == 'PushEvent':
+ repo_name = event['repo']['name']
+ for commit in event['payload']['commits']:
+ # Extract the first line of the commit message (removes long descriptions)
+ msg = commit['message'].split('\n')[0]
+
+ # The API returns an api.github.com URL, we need to convert it to a standard web URL
+ url = commit['url'].replace('api.github.com/repos', 'github.com').replace('/commits/', '/commit/')
+
+ # Format as a markdown list item
+ commits.append(f"- [{msg}]({url}) in [{repo_name}](https://github.com/{repo_name})")
+
+ # Stop once we have 5 commits
+ if len(commits) >= 5:
+ return commits
+
+ return commits
+
+ except Exception as e:
+ print(f"Error fetching commits: {e}")
+ return []
+
+def update_readme(commits):
+ if not commits:
+ print("No commits found to update.")
+ return
+
+ commit_list_md = "\n".join(commits)
+
+ # Read the current README.md
+ with open('README.md', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+ readme = f.read()
+
+ # Use regex to replace everything between the HTML comments
+ updated_readme = re.sub(
+ r"(?<=<!-- START_RECENT_COMMITS -->\n).*?(?=\n<!-- END_RECENT_COMMITS -->)",
+ commit_list_md,
+ readme,
+ flags=re.DOTALL
+ )
+
+ # Write the updated content back to README.md
+ with open('README.md', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+ f.write(updated_readme)
+
+ print("README.md successfully updated!")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ recent_commits = fetch_recent_commits()
+ update_readme(recent_commits)
