I’m selfhosting several services, mostly based on docker containers. Many of these are managed on Github and publish releases there. What annoys me is that I regularly miss updates.
I’m also quite active on Mastodon so I thought it would be handy to have a bot automatically scanning for new github releases and posting a new toot for every new release.
The bot can be configured to scan multiple different github repositories and publish to different mastodon accounts.
I have set up accounts for:
https://mastodon.social/@navidrome_releases
https://mastodon.social/@vaultwarden_releases
https://mastodon.social/@dockerpihole_releases
https://mastodon.social/@tempo_releases
https://mastodon.social/@unifidocker_releases
You can use the notification feature of Mastodon to get a notification, whenever a new post is published. Just follow an account and hit the little bell icon on its profile page.
Here’s the code, if someone is interested in that:
https://codeberg.org/ryan_harg/github-releases-bot
Is this something that you people find useful? Which other services would you like to see covered in that way?
Why not just subscribe to the release notifications or use the releases atom feed?
Off the top of my head, boosting, voting, and discussion.
Yeah, good point!
Exactly, I don’t get the “Mastodon as a poor man’s RSS agregator” trend
I wasn’t trying to throw shade here. I was just genuinely curious about OPs motivations for doing this. It’s totally reasonable that they could have a use case where this solution makes the most sense.
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I do it that way. Enable email notifications for new tagged releases, something arrives, check changelog, everything fine?
And we are done
You don’t need to run docker-compose down.
docker-compose pull; docker-compose up -d is enough
I guess that’s fair for single service composes but I don’t really trust composes with multiple services to gracefully handle only recreating one of the containers
You can
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The bot consumes the atom feed of a repository, but I don’t use a feed reader. you could also just let Github notify you for new releases. But I don’t pay much attention to github notifications either. I’m a lot more likely to notice something like that if it’s integrated into my social media consumption.
That makes sense. Pretty cool, nice work!