Post notification to fediverse social web when code is updated. Currently it was tested with Mastodon service, Support for other activity pub services like pleroma or GNUsocial is also welcome.

• If you didn't before register to an instance of mastodon network:
  • example: https://mastodon.social
• Once registered, go to settings page to create an application:
  • example: https://mastodon.social/settings/profile
• Go to "Settings" / "Development" / "New Application"
  • example: https://mastodon.social/settings/applications/new
• Fill application name: mastodon-lite (or anything else), ignore other fields
• Submit to generate application
  • example: https://mastodon.social/settings/applications
• Go to application details and note "access token"
  • example: "B4DC0D-DeadBeef1BadCode-1TODO1TODOtodoTODO"

• From your project page:
  • https://github.com/$%7Borg%7D/$%7Bproject%7D/settings/secrets
• Add new secret with name "MASTODONACCESSTOKEN" and the previous encoded string as value.

Back to your project import config file:

mkdir -p .github/workflows/
file=".github/workflows/fediverse-action.yml"
curl -o "$file" \
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rzr/fediverse-action/master/$file"
git add "$file"
git commit -sm 'github: Add fediverse-action' "$file"
git push

Then check action's status on github, a message should then appear on your fediverse profile, something like:

• https://mastodon.social/@rzr/103772616301851818

The default config file will post on each push, if you something less verbose you can filter on release only.

Note default "mastodon.social" server will be used unless you override a host value:

# YAML
---

name: fediverse-action
on: [push]
jobs:
  post:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - id: log
        run: echo "::set-output name=message::$(git log --no-merges -1 --oneline)"
      - if: "contains(steps.log.outputs.message, 'Release ')"
        uses: rzr/fediverse-action@master
        with:
          access-token: ${{ secrets.MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          message: "https://github.com/marketplace/actions/fediverse-action# #FediverseAction has just been triggered on my repo thx @[email protected]"

You can get inspired from this reference config file:

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rzr/mastodon-lite/master/.github/workflows/fediverse-action.yml

Feel free to also pin version to latest release (-"@master" +"@vX.Y.Z"):

• https://github.com/marketplace/actions/fediverse-action

• https://github.com/marketplace/actions/fediverse-action/
• https://github.com/rzr/mastodon-lite/
• https://help.github.com/en/actions/building-actions/creating-a-javascript-action
• https://github.com/rzr/webthing-iotjs/wiki/Social
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
• https://github.com/features/actions
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/fediverse-action
• https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/bd-p/actions
• https://lab.github.com/githubtraining/github-actions:-continuous-delivery
• https://mastodon.social/@rzr/103772277257320621#fediverse-action
• https://github.com/rzr/mastodon-lite/blob/master/.github/workflows/fediverse-action.yml
• https://mastodon.social/@rzr/103772576183594794#mastodon-lite