I have a Github repo which analyzes data of COVID-19 cases from an api which updates everyday.
I have run.py script which clones the data but I don’t know how to setup github actions to run the script daily(automaticaly) so that data gets updated daily.
And one more thing I also want to export my Analysis.ipnb as index.html daily at the same time.
I don’t have any idea how to setup github actions to achive above tasks
Hi @piyushke ,
Thank you for being here! To answer your query:
You need to create a workflow yaml, doc here: https://help.github.com/en/actions/configuring-and-managing-workflows/configuring-a-workflow#creating-a-workflow-file
In the yaml, set ‘schedule’ event. Details here. code sample as below:
name: py
on:
schedule:
- cron: “0 0 * * *” #runs at 00:00 UTC everyday
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: checkout repo content
uses: actions/checkout@v2 # checkout the repository content to github runner.
- name: setup python
uses: actions/setup-python@v2
with:
python-version: 3.8 #install the python needed
- name: execute py script # run the run.py to get the latest data
run: |
python run.py
env:
key: ${{ secrets.key }} # if run.py requires passwords..etc, set it as secrets
- name: export index
.... # use crosponding script or actions to help export.
Thanks.