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A GitHub activity digest tool
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Dinghy
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Dinghy, a GitHub activity digest tool.

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Dinghy uses the GitHub GraphQL API to find recent activity on releases, issues
and pull requests, and writes a compact HTML digest `like this `_.

Sample Digest
=============

Here's a sample of a Dinghy digest reporting on `some PSF repos: black,
requests, and PEPs `_.

Getting Started
===============

1. Install dinghy:

.. code-block:: bash

$ python -m pip install dinghy

2. To run dinghy you will need a GitHub `personal access token`_. The scopes
you need to assign to it depend on what repos you'll be accessing. If you
are only accessing public repos, then you don't need any scopes. If you
will be accessing any private repos, then you need the "repo" scope. Create
a token and define the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable with the value:

.. code-block:: bash

$ export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_Y2oxDn9gHJ3W2NcQeyJsrMOez

.. _personal access token: https://github.com/settings/tokens

3. Then run dinghy with a GitHub URL:

.. code-block:: bash

$ dinghy https://github.com/Me/MyProject
Wrote digest: digest.html

You will have a digest of the repo's last week of activity in digest.html.
It will look `something like this `_.

You can also write a YAML configuration file to digest multiple sources, or
with different time periods:

.. code-block:: bash

$ dinghy my-dinghy-config.yaml
Wrote digest: proj1.html
Wrote digest: proj2-daily.html
Wrote digest: proj2-weekly.html

Extra arguments specify which digests to write:

.. code-block:: bash

$ dinghy my-dinghy-config.yaml proj1.html
Wrote digest: proj1.html

Configuration
=============

Dinghy configuration is read from a YAML file (``dinghy.yaml`` by default).
Here's an example:

.. code-block:: yaml

digests:
- digest: lastweek.html
title: My projects last week
since: 1 week
items:
- https://github.com/orgs/myorg/projects/17
- https://github.com/orgs/anotherorg/projects/8
- https://github.com/myorg/myrepo/pulls

- digest: hotnews.html
title: Today's news
since: 1 day
items:
- url: https://github.com/orgs/anotherorg/projects/8
home_repo: anotherorg/wg
- https://github.com/myorg/churnchurn/issues

- digest: all_prs.html
since: 1 day
items:
- search: org:myorg is:pr
title: MyOrg pull requests

defaults:
ignore_users:
- app-user
- fake-bot

The ``digests`` clause is a list of digests to produce. The ``defaults``
clause sets defaults for the digest options in the rest of the file. Each
``digests`` clause specifies what to digest:

- The ``digest`` setting is the HTML digest file to write.

- The ``since`` setting indicates how far back to look for activity. It can use
units of weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds, and can also be
abbreviated, like ``1d6h``. Using ``since: forever`` will include all
activity regardless of when it happened. If ``since`` is omitted, it
defaults to one week. You can specify ``--since=`` on the dinghy
command line to provide an explicit value.

- The ``items`` setting is a list of things to report on, specified in a few
different ways:

- The ``url`` setting is a GitHub URL, in a number of forms:

- An organization project URL will report on the issues and pull requests
in the project. Your GitHub token will need the "read:project" scope.

- A URL to a repo will report on the issues, pull requests and releases in
the repo.

- A URL to a repo's issues will report on the issues in the repo.

- A URL to a repo's pull requests will report on the pull requests in the
repo.

- A URL to a repo's releases will report on the releases in the repo.

- Any of these URLs can point to a GitHub Enterprise installation instead
of https://github.com.

- The ``search`` setting can specify a GitHub search query to find issues or
pull requests. The query will have an ``updated:`` term added to it to
account for the ``since:`` setting.

- If an item only needs to specify a GitHub URL, then it can simply be the
URL string.

- The optional ``title`` setting will be used to construct the title
and main header of the HTML page.

- The ``template`` setting is the name of a Jinja2 template file to use to
produce the digest. It defaults to "digest.html.j2", which is packaged with
dinghy. The data passed to the template is under-specified; if you want to
write a template of your own, model it on the built-in `digest.html.j2`_.

.. _digest.html.j2: https://github.com/nedbat/dinghy/blob/main/src/dinghy/templates/digest.html.j2

- For GitHub Enterprise, you can specify ``api_root``, which is the URL to
build on for GraphQL API requests. It defaults to
"https://api.github.com/graphql".

Items can have additional options:

- By default, no activity is reported for bot users. If you want to include
them, use ``include_bots: true``.

- Some applications perform actions using real user accounts, but you'd like to
ignore them anyway. You can list those user names that should be ignored in
the ``ignore_users`` setting.

- Digests can have an explicit title set with the ``title`` setting.

- Options for organization projects include:

- ``home_repo`` is the owner/repo of the repo in which most issues will be
created. Issues in other repos will have the repo indicated in the
digest.

Daily Publishing
================

The `sample digest `_ is published daily using a GitHub Action from
its own repo: `nedbat/dinghy_sample `_. You can use it as a
starting point for your own publishing.

.. _sample: https://nedbat.github.io/dinghy_sample/3day.html
.. _sample_repo: https://github.com/nedbat/dinghy_sample

Contributors
============

Thanks to all who have helped:

- Ned Batchelder
- Bill Mill
- Doug Hellmann
- Henry Gessau
- Lucas Taylor
- Quentin Pradet
- Simon de Vlieger

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