Shower some emoji-love!?

[utkarsh2102]

Hi @gautamkrishnar,

Thanks for your work on this!

blog-post-workflow/blog-post-workflow.js

Lines 253 to 259 in 36be303

	// Building with custom template
	const date = dateFormat(cur.date, core.getInput('date_format')); // Formatting date
	let content = template
	.replace(/\$title\b/g, cur.title)
	.replace(/\$url\b/g, cur.url)
	.replace(/\$date\b/g, date)
	.replace(/\$newline/g, '\n');

As I see it, the "Latest Blog Posts" section could you some emoji-love.
What I mean is, maybe we could use some emoji (at random from a pre-defined set) before the blog post. For example:

1. 💯 [$title]($url)
2. 🔥 [$title]($url)
3. 💫 [$title]($url)
4. 🚀 [$title]($url)
5. 🌮 [$title]($url)

[gautamkrishnar]

Setting a single emoji will be possible via the template argument itself. We can introduce a new template variable as $randomEmoji for randomizing the emojis. We should use a static array of emojis so that there won't be unwanted commits generated for the people who are running the workflow in their repo every hour due to randomization. You can also pass token/feed URL as the seed so that the order of the emojis will stay the same every time when randomized for a single repo.

Thanks for the suggestion @utkarsh2102

[utkarsh2102]

Aye, you're right!
It's best if we use [💯, 🔥, 💫, 🚀, 🌮] in that order to avoid a ton of unnecessary commits!

Thanks, again, for your work on this! ❤️

[gautamkrishnar]

Got some more ideas for this, we don't have to hard code emojis:

• $randomEmoji key can be parametrized, users can use template: "$newline - $randomEmoji(💯,🔥,💫,🚀,🌮) $title $url" in their template if they want to randomly generate posts based on the emojis they had given.
• $emojiKey key can be used to show emojis in the order he/she has specified eg:. template: "$newline - $emojiKey(💯,🔥,💫) $title" will give them posts like:
  - 💯 title1
  - 🔥 title2
  - 💫 title3
  - 💯 title4
  - 🔥 title5

[gautamkrishnar]

@utkarsh2102 this is released on version 1.2.8, you can now use it. Thanks a lot for the suggestion.

[LukePrior]

It could be a good addition to allow emoji selection based on the post category.

[gautamkrishnar]

@LukePrior for now i am not planning to inegrate that in the workflow. You can easily acheive that by using the following code:

name: Latest blog post workflow
on:
  schedule: # Run workflow automatically
    - cron: '0 * * * *' # Runs every hour, on the hour
  workflow_dispatch: # Run workflow manually (without waiting for the cron to be called), through the Github Actions Workflow page directly

jobs:
  update-readme-with-blog:
    name: Update this repo's README with latest blog posts
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Pull in dev.to posts
        uses: gautamkrishnar/blog-post-workflow@master
        with:
          feed_list: "https://dev.to/feed/gautamkrishnar,https://www.gautamkrishnar.com/feed/"
          item_exec: |
                if (post.categories.includes("category-name")) {
                    post.title = "😃  " + post.title;
                |

[LukePrior]

@LukePrior for now i am not planning to inegrate that in the workflow. You can easily acheive that by using the following code:

name: Latest blog post workflow
on:
  schedule: # Run workflow automatically
    - cron: '0 * * * *' # Runs every hour, on the hour
  workflow_dispatch: # Run workflow manually (without waiting for the cron to be called), through the Github Actions Workflow page directly

jobs:
  update-readme-with-blog:
    name: Update this repo's README with latest blog posts
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Pull in dev.to posts
        uses: gautamkrishnar/blog-post-workflow@master
        with:
          feed_list: "https://dev.to/feed/gautamkrishnar,https://www.gautamkrishnar.com/feed/"
          item_exec: |
                if (post.categories.includes("category-name")) {
                    post.title = "😃  " + post.title;
                |

Hi, thanks for this code.

I am trying it out but I seem to be running into an issue.

My Action:

jobs:
  update-readme-with-blog:
    name: Update README blog posts
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Pull in dev.to posts
        uses: gautamkrishnar/blog-post-workflow@master
        with:
          feed_list: "https://lukeprior.github.io/blog/feed"
          item_exec: |
            if (post.categories.includes("SondeHub")) { post.title = "🎈  " + post.title; }

My feed:

https://lukeprior.github.io/blog/feed

My logs:

Result:

Expected result:

I was just wondering if you could spot any obvious errors as to why this might not be working?

[gautamkrishnar]

@LukePrior categories array is empty from your feed.

Your feed should have <category>SondeHub</category> for this to work, see: #105 (comment). You currently have <category term="SondeHub"/> which is not a RSS standard way of representing category.