I’m looking for something like GitHub’s user activity indicator that gathers information from a list of git repositories regardless of where they are hosted (as long as they are public), that I can put on my webpage, kind of as a thing to show what I’m working on at the moment.

Is this a thing that already exists? I’d started writing one a while ago but instead of reviving that it would be great if there’s something that already exists and I can just use :^)

  • arran 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    I asked chatgpt to write a go program for this, this looks roughly correct (I have used both libraries before) obviously this won’t be enough for your particular use case. I imagine you can integrate an RSS feed to your site, however if you’re using something like hugo perhaps output it as a csv.

    Super low effort but a good start I think:

    package main
    
    import (
    	"fmt"
    	"log"
    	"os"
    	"strings"
    	"time"
    
    	git "github.com/go-git/go-git/v5"
    	rss "github.com/jteeuwen/go-pkg-rss"
    )
    
    const (
    	timeout = 5 // timeout in seconds for the RSS feed generation
    )
    
    // Repository represents a git repository with its URL
    type Repository struct {
    	URL string
    }
    
    // Repositories is the list of git repositories
    var Repositories = []Repository{
    	{URL: "https://github.com/owner/repo1"},
    	{URL: "https://github.com/owner/repo2"},
    	// Add more repositories here
    }
    
    // FetchLatestTag fetches the latest tag from a git repository
    func FetchLatestTag(repoURL string) (string, string, error) {
    	// Clone the repository to a temporary directory
    	dir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "repo")
    	if err != nil {
    		return "", "", err
    	}
    	defer os.RemoveAll(dir)
    
    	_, err = git.PlainClone(dir, true, &git.CloneOptions{
    		URL:      repoURL,
    		Progress: os.Stdout,
    	})
    	if err != nil {
    		return "", "", err
    	}
    
    	repo, err := git.PlainOpen(dir)
    	if err != nil {
    		return "", "", err
    	}
    
    	tags, err := repo.Tags()
    	if err != nil {
    		return "", "", err
    	}
    
    	var latestTag string
    	var latestCommitTime time.Time
    
    	err = tags.ForEach(func(ref *plumbing.Reference) error {
    		tag := ref.Name().Short()
    		commit, err := repo.CommitObject(ref.Hash())
    		if err != nil {
    			return err
    		}
    		if commit.Committer.When.After(latestCommitTime) {
    			latestCommitTime = commit.Committer.When
    			latestTag = tag
    		}
    		return nil
    	})
    	if err != nil {
    		return "", "", err
    	}
    
    	return latestTag, latestCommitTime.Format(time.RFC1123Z), nil
    }
    
    // GenerateRSS generates an RSS feed from the latest tags of the repositories
    func GenerateRSS() string {
    	feed := rss.Feed{
    		Title:       "Latest Tags from Git Repositories",
    		Link:        &rss.Link{Href: "http://example.com/"},
    		Description: "This feed provides the latest tags from a list of git repositories.",
    		Created:     time.Now(),
    	}
    
    	for _, repo := range Repositories {
    		tag, date, err := FetchLatestTag(repo.URL)
    		if err != nil {
    			log.Printf("Error fetching latest tag for repository %s: %v", repo.URL, err)
    			continue
    		}
    		feed.Items = append(feed.Items, &rss.Item{
    			Title:       fmt.Sprintf("Latest tag for %s: %s", repo.URL, tag),
    			Link:        &rss.Link{Href: repo.URL},
    			Description: fmt.Sprintf("The latest tag for repository %s is %s, created on %s.", repo.URL, tag, date),
    			Created:     time.Now(),
    		})
    	}
    
    	var rssFeed strings.Builder
    	rssFeed.WriteString(xml.Header)
    	if err := feed.Write(&rssFeed); err != nil {
    		log.Fatalf("Error generating RSS feed: %v", err)
    	}
    
    	return rssFeed.String()
    }
    
    func main() {
    	rssFeed := GenerateRSS()
    	fmt.Println(rssFeed)
    }
    
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    Probably not, since Git is federated and decentralized. There are no git “accounts”. Git asks for your name and email but those are basically meaningless unless the repository hosting platform does something with them like ties them to an account identity.

    You could maybe use the GitHub activity view by also mirroring your projects from elsewhere onto GH

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    @2xsaiko RSS/Atom feeds were developed for this use case. GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg (Forgejo), Sourcehut, even cgit and git’s own gitweb serve feeds. For example here’s my GitHub account: https://github.com/ollytom.atom
    my main OSS project: https://git.olowe.co/streaming/atom/

    Atom feeds are widely supported (it’s how I found this post!) and there are many libraries/apps/plugins for aggregation. Robust old tech. And no need to limit feeds to Git activity if you don’t want to :) Good luck!

    @technology

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    3 months ago

    OpenHub is vaguely working like this. It is meant to accumulate all your development work throughout the Internet. E.g. my profile there looks like this:

    https://openhub.net/accounts/mbirth

    It’s not for self-hosting, though, as far as I’m aware.