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Show your latest dev.to posts automatically on your GitHub profile readme

Gautam Krishna R on July 21, 2020

I just created a GitHub Action that lets you add links to your latest blog posts from Dev.to and other sources to your Github Profile readme automa...
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Luis Augusto

That's an awesome idea, I'm going to try this out with my readme! I also like the progress bars, but I think the data would be better visualized with a pie charts or a segmented bar instead of separating it. I'll play around with that as well, thanks!

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Gautam Krishna R • Edited

Thanks for the overwhelming response everyone, Just added StackOverflow support to the project. Now you can have your dev.to posts along with your StackOverflow activity in your GitHub readme. The action now supports having multiple instances on the same repo.

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Iain Freestone

That is a fantastic idea

There are some great GitHub profiles appearing now.

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Ileriayo Adebiyi

Amazing!
I look forward to trying it out on my profile github.com/ileriayo/ileriayo

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Pavel Tkachenko

Looks great! I'm going to grab progress-bar idea $)

Another example with JS:
dev.to/mokkapps/how-i-built-a-self...

My example with ruby (step-by-step for beginners)
dev.to/pashagray/github-auto-readm...

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Annie Taylor Chen

How come you guys always came out with those amazing things? I am jealous! 🤩

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Neeraj M R

Thanks for helping

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KarthikNayak • Edited

I wanted to Github activities in my README.md. But I am getting error. How should I add?
I didn't understand what are those secret keys? And how to create one?

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Gautam Krishna R

You cant use blog post workflow to show the GitHub activities on your readme. Github don't give you XML data yet via their API. Use github.com/jamesgeorge007/github-a... instead.

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KarthikNayak

What are those GitHub keys? How to generate those?

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Gautam Krishna R

It is optional in this workflow too. Just add the yml, you are good to go.

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Gautam Krishna R

github.com/settings/tokens You can get keys from here

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KarthikNayak

Yeah thanks

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Anita Joseph

Thanks for sharing this github profile Idea.

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rderik

That's cool!

I did something similar but using Swift:

github.com/rderik/octoprofile

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Christian Dennig

Nice :) thanks!

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Madza

Nice one :)

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Jess Barrientos • Edited

Cool! I just added it to my GitHub profile :

github.com/jbc7ag

Thanks, looks great!!

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Nitya Narasimhan, Ph.D

Loved this idea - thanks for sharing. Hope to try it out! 🎉

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Christine Pinto

Thank you for creating this and keeping it up to date.

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Michael Fasani

Works great, really cool stuff! Added to my profile: github.com/Fasani

I noticed you are on a 7 day contribution streak, why not join me and keep going for 365 days? #365DaysOfCode

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Gautam Krishna R

Thanks. Since I have a full-time job, I may not be able to that 😄. During my college days, I had a good streak on GitHub.

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Michael Fasani

1 day at a time! I also have a fulltime job and two kids! I believe you can do it! :-D

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Gautam Krishna R

Hehehe Will try 😄

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Stephanie Morillo

I’m going to try this; thanks Gautam!

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spiritupbro

damn so cool

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Abhineet Tandon

Bravo 👏👏👏👏

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Diona Rodrigues

Awesome! I'll try it!! :)

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Vuong Dang

Awesome 😍

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Brian Christner

Great tip, thanks for this

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Dragodzs

good stuff.

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nelero

I love this idea !