Wakatime Stats GitHub Actions

Overview

This GitHub Actions workflow is designed to update a README file with your Wakatime statistics. It utilizes a GitHub access token, your Wakatime API key, and your Wakatime user ID to fetch and display your coding activity on your repository's README file.

Prerequisites

Before you can use this workflow, you need to ensure you have the following:

1. Wakatime Account :

   • WakaTime is a developer productivity tool and time tracking service specifically designed for software developers. It helps developers keep track of how much time they spend working on various programming tasks, coding projects, and programming languages.

2. Wakatime API Key :

   • You need your Wakatime API key, which you can obtain from your Wakatime account settings.

3. Wakatime User ID :

   • Your Wakatime User ID is required to fetch your coding statistics. You can find it in your Wakatime account settings.

4. Create a personal repository

   • Your personal repository is a special repository that has the same name as your username. It matches the following pattern : <your-username>/<your-username>. Example : https://github.com/claserre9/claserre9

5. GitHub Access Token :

   • You should have a GitHub access token with the repo scope. If you don't have one, you can create it in your GitHub account settings.

Usage

To set up and use this GitHub Actions workflow in your repository, follow these steps:

1. Create Workflow File :

   • Create a new GitHub Actions workflow file in your personal repository. For example, you can create a .github/workflows/wakatime-stats.yml file.

2. Update your README :

   • Add the following markdown comments to where you want the stats to be generated in your README file.

   [//]: # (wakatime-stats)
   [//]: # (end-wakatime-stats)

   The Wakatime stats will appear between these two markdown comments

3. Configure Workflow :

   • In the workflow file, specify the following input parameters:

     • GH_TOKEN: Your GitHub access token.
     • WAKATIME_API_KEY: Your Wakatime API Key.
     • WAKATIME_USER_ID: Your Wakatime User ID.

   • Example:

     name: Wakatime Stats
     
     on:
       workflow_dispatch:
       schedule:
         - cron: '0 0 * * *' #Will run at midnight every day. Free to change according to your needs
     
     jobs:
       update-readme:
         runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     
         steps:
           - name: Checkout Code
             uses: actions/checkout@v2
     
           - name: Update README with Wakatime Stats
             env:
               GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
               WAKATIME_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.WAKATIME_API_KEY }}
               WAKATIME_USER_ID: ${{ secrets.WAKATIME_USER_ID }}

4. Secrets :

   • Store your GitHub access token, Wakatime API Key, and Wakatime User ID as secrets in your GitHub repository settings. You can access these secrets as shown in the example workflow above.

5. Run Workflow:

   • The workflow will be triggered when you push changes to your repository's main branch, as per the example configuration. You can customize the trigger events as needed.

6. Full Setup Example

    name: Wakatime Stats
   
    on:
    workflow_dispatch:
    schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * *'  # Run at midnight every day
   
    jobs:
    update-readme-with-wakatime-stats:
    name: Update README with Wakatime stats
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
   
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
   
      - uses: claserre9/wakatime-stats@v1
        with:
          WAKATIME_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.WAKATIME_API_KEY }}
          WAKATIME_USER_ID: ${{ secrets.WAKATIME_USER_ID }}
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
          TABLE_STYLE: 'default' # (optional) can be 'default','box' or 'box-double'
          MAX_LANGUAGES: '5' # (optional) any number > 5, if under 5, this will be set to 5
          WAKATIME_TIME_RANGE: 'all_time' # (optional) can be 'last_7_days', 'last_30_days', 'last_6_months' or 'last_year'

License

This GitHub Actions workflow is provided under the MIT License.