refresh-voted-issues.yml

# Uses Github API to get a list of issues that have votes on and then
# save results into a json

name: Refresh Voted Issues
on:
  schedule:
    # * is a special character in YAML so you have to quote this string
    - cron:  '25 03 * * *'
  # run on demand too if needed
  workflow_dispatch:
jobs:
  voted_main:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      # Checkout the repo this is running in
      - name: checkout this repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      # setup python, lets default to the latest version
      - name: Set up Python
        uses: actions/setup-python@v2

      - name: Install dependencies
        run: |
          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
          pip install PyGithub

      # run the python script passing in the github token
      - name: Run the python
        run: |
          export GH_TOKEN=${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          python query_gh_voted_issues.py

      # commit the changes oonly if the file has changed
      - name: Commit the changes
        run: |
          git config --global user.name 'votebot'
          git config --global user.email 'noreply@github.com'
          git add -A
          if ! git diff-index --quiet HEAD; then
            git commit -m "Update the voted issues json"
            git push origin main
          fi