Gitbook Action

This action builds and publishes a gitbook to github pages and other pages. Click here for more information.

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How to Use

STEP1 Add Action

Add .github/workflows/gitbook-action.ymlin your repo, with following content.

name: 'Gitbook Action Build'
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master  # trigger branch
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Checkout action
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Gitbook Action           # https://github.com/ZanderZhao/gitbook-action/releases
      uses: ZanderZhao/gitbook-action@v1.2.4  # -> or ZanderZhao/gitbook-action@master.  If not use master click above, use latest please 
      with:                                   #    or fork this repo and use YourName/gitbook-action@master
        token: ${{ secrets.PERSONAL_TOKEN }}  # -> remember add this in settings/secrets as following

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STEP2 Generate Token and add to Secrets

Create token from https://github.com/settings/tokens

choose repo
click Generate token

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Add your token to https://github.com/ yourname/yourrepo /settings/secrets

Name: PERSONAL_TOKEN
Value: which you get before

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STEP3 Choose options

Set Default Above
- Source branch is master, and the target branch is gh-pages. If gh-pages does not exist, it will be created automatically.
More Options And Example.
- Introduction on https://ZanderZhao.github.io/gitbook-action/#option
  - Source repo and publish repo can be different
  - Source git from other people
  - Choose your own gitbook version
  - Clean commit history
  - Keep time setting of file
  - ... ...

Note that if the activation branch and the compiled file publishing branch are the same branch, it may cause a dead loop, so you need to cancel the task manually.

Option

The following is options, click here, to detail

# for global
time_zone
git_name
git_email

# for source
source_repo
source_branch
source_dir
source_edit_time
source_token
source_git_name
source_hub

# for publish
publish_repo
publish_commit_message
publish_hub
publish_branch
publish_dir
publish_commit_history
publish_cname
publish_push_force
publish_token
publish_git_name
publish_git_email
publish_remove_last_build

# for gitbook
gitbook_cli_version
gitbook_version
gitbook_pdf
gitbook_pdf_dir
gitbook_pdf_name
gitbook_epub
gitbook_epub_dir
gitbook_epub_name
gitbook_mobi
gitbook_mobi_dir
gitbook_mobi_name
font_install
not_clean
prepare_install

# for source2
source2_repo
source2_git_name
source2_token
source2_hub
source2_branch
source2_dir
source2_edit_time

# for publish2
publish2_repo
publish2_git_name
publish2_token
publish2_git_email
publish2_commit_message
publish2_hub
publish2_branch
publish2_commit_history
publish2_dir
publish2_cname
publish2_push_force
publish2_remove_last_build

# for publish3
publish3_repo
publish3_git_name
publish3_token
publish3_git_email
publish3_commit_message
publish3_hub
publish3_branch
publish3_commit_history
publish3_dir
publish3_cname
publish3_push_force
publish3_remove_last_build

Example

FAQ

Q&A

ERROR

WARNING

Community

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