juanpflores / contributors-readme-action

A github action to automate a contributors section in readme.

Contributors-Readme-Action

Contributors-Readme-Action is a simple GitHub action to automate contributors list in README file. Not only contributors, collborators, bots or any user.

As it uses a GitHub action it's secure and very easy to integrate into your projects. Once added it will automatically add all the repository contributors to your readme in a well-formatted table, including future contributors 😄. Now why would you need a contributors list? Come on man, show some love to the ones who contribute to your project.😉

The contributors list is fetched from GitHub API.

Getting Started

First Step

If you're new to actions, add these to your .github/workflows/main.yml file. If this file does not exist, create one.

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
    contrib-readme-job:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest
        name: A job to automate contrib in readme
        steps:
            - name: Contribute List
              uses: akhilmhdh/contributors-readme-action@v2.1.1
              env:
                  GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

That's it!

To add it to your to your existing workflow, append this to your current .yml workflow script.

- uses: akhilmhdh/contributors-readme-action@v2.1.1
  env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Currently GITHUB_TOKEN doesn't have permission to directly commit on a protected branch. To solve this you may need to replace the github action token with an admin acc token as mentioned in this post by phips28. Hopefully in the future GitHub can give an exception to actions in workflow.

Second Step

1. Add a README.md file
2. Add the below comment inside your README.md where you want it to appear.

<!-- readme: contributors -start -->
<!-- readme: contributors -end -->

3. Save it, wait for the action to complete and tadaa 😄

But wait!!!

• What if you wanted to add direct collaborators of a project, no worries

## Collaborators

<!-- readme: collaborators -start -->
<!-- readme: collaborators -end -->

## Contributors

<!-- readme: contributors -start -->
<!-- readme: contributors -end -->

• Now you decided that you want to join this into one list, no issue

## Contributors

<!-- readme: collaborators,contributors -start -->
<!-- readme: collaborators,contributors -end -->

• Then you decided to add some github users who are important figure in this project

## Contributors

<!-- readme: <username1>,collaborators,<username2>,contributors -start -->
<!-- readme: <username1>,collaborators,<username3>,contributors -end -->

The order of the list will be given priority. So username1 will appear first collaborators then username2 likewise.(No brackets for usernames)

The subject inside start and end must be same.

Keywords

keywords	Definition
contributors	contributors of the repo
collaborators	contributors of the repo
sponsors	sponsors of the repo's user/organization
bots	bots of the repo
username	any username that you want to add on to the list

• An example of this action can be found here

Optional parameters

You can add these optional parameters in your action script to modify the appearance of the resulting list.

- name: Contribute List
  uses: akhilmhdh/contributors-readme-action@v2.1
  with:
      image_size: 100

Option	Default Value	Description	Required
image_size	100(px)	Size of square images in the stack	false
readme_path	README.md	Path of the readme file you want to update	false
columns_per_row	6	Number of columns in a row	false
collaborators	direct	Type of collaborators options: all/direct/outside	false
commit_message	contrib-readme-action has updated readme	Commit message of the github action	false
committer_username	contrib-readme-bot	Username on commit	false
committer_email	email id of committer	[e-mail]	false

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• all-contributors-bot: Inspiration for this project
• image-shield: For the cool badges