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Markdown automation made simple using markdown-autodocs github action
Hi everyone!, I just released markdown-autodocs GitHub action which will help you to auto-document your markdown files. Please give a star for this repo if you find it useful.
To make your repo more appealing and useful you need to provide example code snippets in your README.md. Manually copy and pasting each code snippet in their respective places in your README would be inefficient and time-consuming.
This problem can be solved using markdown-autodocs a GitHub Action that automatically generates & updates markdown content (like your README.md) from external or remote files. You need to add markers in your README.md that will tell markdown-autodocs where to insert the code snippet.
- Code block: Insert code snippet in your markdown file from external or remote files.
- JSON to HTML table: Insert HTML Table in your markdown file by converting JSON file contents to HTML table.
- Github Workflow Artifacts table: Insert the Github workflow artifacts table in your markdown file by getting the latest artifacts for a workflow run.
Get code from an external file or URL and insert it in your markdown.
Options:
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src: The relative path to the code to pull in, or theURLwhere the raw code lives
Get code from external file
Get code from remote file
Get JSON contents from an external file and convert it into an HTML table and insert's it in your markdown.
Options:
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src: The relative path to the JSON file to pull in.
Get the list of the latest artifacts generated from a workflow run. Generates a workflow artifacts table consists of artifacts download and workflow URL in an HTML table and inserts it in your markdown file.
Add the following step at the end of your job, after other steps that might add or change files.
uses: dineshsonachalam/markdown-[email protected]- name: Markdown autodocs
- uses: dineshsonachalam/markdown-[email protected]
with:
# Optional, defaults to author of the commit that triggered the run
commit_author: Author <[email protected]>
# Optional, defaults to "[email protected]"
commit_user_email: [email protected]
# Optional, but recommended
# Defaults to "Apply automatic changes"
commit_message: Apply automatic changes
# Optional branch name where commit should be pushed to.
# Defaults to the current branch.
branch: feature-123
# Optional output file paths, defaults to '[./README.md]'.
output_file_paths: '[./README.md]'
# Categories to automatically sync or transform its contents in the markdown files.
# Defaults to '[code-block,json-to-html-table,workflow-artifact-table]'
categories: '[code-block,json-to-html-table,workflow-artifact-table]'18