feat: introducing Mastodon Send GitHub Action v2: Enhanced Features and Customizations

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Overview

The Mastodon Send GitHub Action has been upgraded to v2, introducing a suite of enhancements and new features aimed at providing a more versatile and user-friendly experience for automating Mastodon toots via GitHub Actions. Building on the solid foundation of v1, this latest version extends functionality while maintaining ease of use and flexibility in integrating Mastodon into your CI/CD pipelines.

What's New in v2

Extended Input Parameters

• Enhanced Visibility Control: Alongside the existing public, unlisted, private, and direct visibility options, v2 defaults to public if no visibility is specified, ensuring your messages reach the audience you intend without extra configuration.
• Sensitive Content Handling: Mark toots as sensitive with the new sensitive input, protecting viewers from potential spoilers or sensitive material.
• Spoiler Text Addition: Accompany sensitive toots with spoiler-text, providing a content warning that precedes the main message.
• Language Specification: Define the toot's language with the language input, aiding in content categorization and enhancing accessibility.
• Scheduled Toots: Plan your communications by scheduling toots for future publication using the scheduled-at input, formatted in ISO 8601 for precision and clarity.

Improved Outputs for Enhanced Integrations

• Outputs have been expanded to include id, url, and scheduled_at of the posted toot, facilitating further actions or integrations within your workflows.

Container Support

• v2 can be executed independently within a container, offering greater flexibility for different CI/CD setups: podman run --rm -it ghcr.io/cbrgm/mastodon-github-action:v2 --help.

GoLang Enhancements

• The action is now backed by Go's latest best practices, including improved error handling.

Simplified Workflow Configuration

• The workflow syntax has been streamlined, making it easier to configure the action with less boilerplate code.

Workflow Usage Example

- name: Send toot to Mastodon with additional options
  uses: cbrgm/mastodon-github-action@v2
  with:
    access-token: ${{ secrets.MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
    url: ${{ secrets.MASTODON_URL }}
    message: "Check out our latest update."
    visibility: "unlisted"
    sensitive: true
    spoiler-text: "Latest Update"
    language: "en"
    scheduled-at: "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z"