Github Release Notifier

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(This product is available under a free and permissive license, but needs financial support to sustain its continued improvements. In addition to maintenance and stability there are many desirable features yet to be added.)

This program will allow you to be notified of Github new releases

Installation

pip3 install github-release-notifier

Usage

usage: github-release-notifier [-h] [--action {cron,subscribe,unsubscribe}] [--package PACKAGE]
              [--webhook WEBHOOK] [--uuid UUID]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --action {cron,subscribe,unsubscribe}, -a {cron,subscribe,unsubscribe}
                        Action to do (default: cron)
  --package PACKAGE, -p PACKAGE
                        Github package name / url (required for
                        subscribe/unsubscribe) - prints uuid on subscription
  --webhook WEBHOOK, -w WEBHOOK
                        URL to your webhook (required for
                        subscribe/unsubscribe)
  --uuid UUID, -u UUID  UUID of your webhook (required for unsubscribe)

Example

First, I register my webhook :

github-release-notifier --action subscribe --webhook https://example.com/updated --package jaymoulin/google-music-manager

an UUID is printed. this UUID will be required to unsubscribe the webhook.

When jaymoulin/google-music-manager releases a new version, https://example.com/updated will be called with HTTP method POST and body, a JSON like this :

{
    "date": [2017, 11, 13, 19, 46, 35, 0, 317, 0],
    "version": "0.7.2",
    "title": "Fixes split modules",
    "content": "",
    "media": "https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/14236493?s=60&v=4",
    "author": "jaymoulin"
    "package_name": "jaymoulin/google-music-manager"
}

For this to happen, the system should check if a new version have been released. We can do that by calling github-release-notifier without any parameter or setting --action to cron (which is default).

To automate this process, we could add this process in a cronjob:

(crontab -l ; echo "0 0 * * * github-release-notifier") | sort - | uniq - | crontab -

This will check every day at midnight if new versions have been released.

Configuration

Environment variables can be defined to change default hooks or versions database files (plain json file)

GRN_VERSIONS_FILE: Path to saved versions (default: ${HOME}/.github_release_notifier/versions)
GRN_HOOKS_FILE: Path to hooks configuration (default: ${HOME}/.github_release_notifier/hooks)

Docker Usage

First run the daemon

docker run --name GRN -d femtopixel/github-release-notifier

you can mount a volume to /root/.github_release_notifier/ to keep tracks of webhooks and versions

example:

docker run --name GRN -d -v /path/to/your/saves:/root/.github_release_notifier/ femtopixel/github-release-notifier

Then register your webhook :

docker exec GRN -a subscribe -p jaymoulin/google-music-manager -w https://example.com/updated

Submitting bugs and feature requests

Bugs and feature request are tracked on GitHub

Author

Jay MOULIN jaymoulin+github-release-notifier@gmail.com See also the list of contributors which participated in this program.

License

Github Release Notifier is licensed under the MIT License