Creating Your Own Pinned Gist Bot

How to create your own pinned gist bot - given at the MidlandsJS Meetup.
If you'd like me to give this talk as a talk or a workshop - email me at josh@turboapi.dev

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1. Creating Your Own Pinned Gist Bot with GitHub Actions Josh Ghent https://bit.ly/pinned-gist-leicsjs
2. What?
3. Idea! • Find an API ◦ Good Docs ◦ Static Token (because OAuth2 is a pain) • Ideally an API you used or data you’re interested in ◦ Fitbit ◦ Pocket ◦ GoodReads ◦ Todoist
4. Lay the Foundations • Clone https://github.com/joshghent/rescue-box as a framework • Create a new repo - github.com/myuser/api-box • Push the framework to the new the new repo • Create a blank gist and add the ID to the secrets as GIST_ID • Create a new Github token with `gist` scope and add it to the repo secrets as GH_TOKEN
5. Get the Data • Research the API response for the data you want • Get your API token! • Update the code to contain the stats you want
6. ‍ Test Locally
7. ⚠ Publish the Action • Update the schedule.yml ◦ Secrets ◦ Crontab
8. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Woo! You just made an automated action! https://bit.ly/pinned-gist-leicsjs