Github Release Watcher
Simple bot to poll information of Github repositories every x minutes and send an e-mail, once a new release has been detected. I have written this small bot, as Github Watch did not differentiate between actual releases and (daily) pre-releases.
Therefore it will watch /releases/latest which links to actual releases.
Installation
This bot is self-hosted. I do not provide a service to check for your releases, but you also don't have to trust me in return. It is therefore necessary to have a machine running 24/7. If you have a non x86_64 machine such as the RPI Zero W with ARMv6 chip set and struggle to cross-compile the source code, you can check this Dockerfile.
Usage
Sending an e-mail appears to be non-trivial, so I expect you already configured a mail client to send mails (e.g. smtp or msmtp) and the command mail is available. Therefore this is also limited to linux so far.
Configuration
Create ~/.config/gh-release-watcher/config.toml and configure it as
[config]
email = "foo@bar.com" # who to send the email to
time = 3600 # polling time (in sec)
[github]
"neovim/neovim" = "0" # will be updated by the bot, if a newer version has been foundIf changes to the configuration are made, the program has to be restarted.