My Workflow

I made a GitHub Action that pulls stats from the Dev.to API. It currently just counts the total comments, page views, and reactions across all of your published articles.

I'm currently using the action to periodically collect the stats and save them in a repo under stats/dev-to.json.

Submission Category:

This is a Wacky Wildcard entry, but it's fun to collect stats 😉.

Yaml File or Link to Code

It's a Typescript Action. Creating it from the template was fairly straightforward. Figuring out how to run it locally was a little rough.

name: Get Stats
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "*/30 * * * *"

jobs:
  pull-stats:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: Get Stats from Dev.to
    steps:
    - uses: kasuboski/dev-to-stats-action@v1
      with:
        apiKey: ${{ secrets.API_KEY }}

{"public_reactions_count":12,"page_views_count":123,"comments_count":0}

The repo where my stats are being aggregated.

Additional Resources / Info

My workflow uses this action to push changed files back to the repo