You can use a scheduled event to trigger the workflow. As for detecting changes I’d suggest just overwriting the YAML file and then using git diff --exit-code to detect if it actually changed.

Hey, thanks for your reply!

Do you mean something like this with a scheduled event:

       # Runs the Script to convert ics to yaml format
  - name: Run ics-to-yml.py
    run: python assets/script/ics-to-yml.py

  - name: Check git diff
    if: git diff --exit-code == 1
    # Creates Pull Request
    uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v3
    with:
      token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
      branch-suffix: timestamp
      path: ./master
      title: Update upcoming events
      labels: automated-build
      commit-message: Update upcoming events

Is there any other way to do this?

I really appreciate for your help, thank youu!

Hey, I’m not sure why it’s saying it’s not a git repository. Thus all the jobs run successfully, but no changes occur

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Did you use actions/checkout before the other things? If no, you definitely need to do that.

If yes check its logs. By default it creates a Git repository, but if the installed Git version is too old (that might happen with a job container or self-hosted runner) it might just download the files over the API.

Yes, I used actions/checkout before these.

I think in this, the git is initialized:

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Looks like it is, but the working directory looks odd with the /master part at the end. Is that the same directory the file gets written to and that git diff is running in?