/dinghy

A GitHub activity digest tool

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Dinghy

Dinghy, a GitHub activity digest tool.

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Dinghy uses the GitHub GraphQL API to find recent activity on issues and pull requests, and writes a compact HTML digest like this.

Getting Started

  1. Install dinghy:

    $ python -m pip install dinghy
  2. To run dinghy you will need a GitHub personal access token with the correct scopes, probably "repo". Create one and define the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable with the value:

    $ export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_Y2oxDn9gHJ3W2NcQeyJsrMOez
  1. Then run dinghy with a GitHub URL:

    $ python -m dinghy https://github.com/Me/MyProject
    Wrote digest: digest.html

    You will have a digest of the repo's last week of activity in digest.html. It will look something like this.

    You can also write a YAML configuration file to digest multiple sources, or with different time periods.

Configuration

Dinghy configuration is read from a YAML file (dinghy.yaml by default). Here's an example:

digests:
  - digest: lastweek.html
    since: 1 week
    items:
      - https://github.com/orgs/myorg/projects/17
      - https://github.com/orgs/anotherorg/projects/8
      - https://github.com/myorg/myrepo/pulls

  - digest: hotnews.html
    since: 1 day
    items:
      - url: https://github.com/orgs/anotherorg/projects/8
        home_repo: anotherorg/wg
      - https://github.com/myorg/churnchurn/issues

  - digest: all_prs.html
    since: 1 day
    items:
      - pull_requests: org:myorg

defaults:
  ignore_users:
    - app-user
    - fake-bot

The digests clause is a list of digests to produce. The defaults clause sets defaults for the digest options in the rest of the file. Each digests clause specifies what to digest:

  • The digest setting is the HTML digest file to write.
  • The since setting indicates how far back to look for activity. It can use units of weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds, and can also be abbreviated, like 1d6h.
  • The items setting is a list of things to report on, specified in a few different ways:
    • The url setting is a GitHub URL, in a number of forms:
      • An organization project URL will report on the issues and pull requests in the project. Your GitHub token will need the "read:org" scope.
      • A URL to a repo will report on the issues and pull requests in the repo.
      • A URL to a repo's issues will report on the issues in the repo.
      • A URL to a repo's pull requests will report on the pull requests in the repo.
      • A URL to a repo project will report on the issues and pull requests in the project.
    • The pull_requests setting can specify an organization to search for pull requests.
    • If an item only needs to specify a GitHub URL, then it can simply be the URL string.

Items can have additional options:

  • No activity is reported for bot users. Some applications act as real users, but should be ignored anyway. You can list those user names that should be ignored in the ignore_users setting.
  • Options for organization projects include:
    • home_repo is the owner/repo of the repo in which most issues will be created. Issues in other repos will have the repo indicated in the digest.