If you use WakaTime to track your coding activity. You can add that to your README as a bar graph or embed in your blog/portfolio. Just add this action to any of your repository and there you have it. See mine below.
My WakaTime Coding Activity
How to add one to your README.md
- First get your WakaTime API Key. You can get it from your WakaTime account settings.
- Save WakaTime API Key to Repository Secret. Find that by clicking the Settings tab. Keep the name of secret as WAKATIME_API_KEY.
- Add following line in your README.md of your repo.
<img
src="https://github.com/<username>/<repository-name>/blob/<branch-name>/images/stat.svg"
alt="Alternative Text"
/>
Example:
<img
src="https://github.com/avinal/avinal/blob/main/images/stat.svg"
alt="Avinal WakaTime Activity"
/>
You can use this method to embed in web pages too. Do not use markdown method of inserting images. It does not work some times.
- Click Action tab and choose set up a workflow yourself.
- Copy the following code into the opened file, you can search for WakaTime Stat in marketplace tab for assistance.
name: WakaTime status update
on:
schedule:
# Runs at 12 am '0 0 * * *' UTC
- cron: "1 0 * * *"
jobs:
update-readme:
name: Update the WakaTime Stat
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
# Use avinal/Profile-Readme-WakaTime@<latest-release-tag> for latest stable release
# Do not change the line below until you have forked this repository
# If you have forked this project you can use <username>/Profile-Readme-WakaTime@master instead
- uses: avinal/Profile-Readme-WakaTime@master
with:
# WakaTime API key stored in secrets, do not directly paste it here
WAKATIME_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.WAKATIME_API_KEY }}
# Automatic github token
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
# Branch - newer GitHub repositories have "main" as default branch, change to main in that case, default is master
BRANCH: "master"
# Manual Commit messages - write your own messages here
COMMIT_MSG: "Automated Coding Activity Update :alien:"
- Please wait till 12 AM UTC to run this workflow automatically. Or you can force run it by going to Action tab. Or you can add following lines under
on:
to run with every push. Search for 12 AM UTC to find equivalent time in your time zone.
on:
push:
branches: [master]
schedule:
- cron: "1 0 * * *"